OpenAI has unveiled a preview of its new o3 reasoning models that CEO Sam Altman said, immodestly, begin the “next phase” of AI. The models, announced Friday, did so well on a prominent benchmark that some immediately questioned whether the company had in fact achieved the AI industry’s holy grail: artificial general intelligence,

Speaking at a New York Times summit, the tech executive said that the outlet “is on the wrong side of history in many ways.”