More on that below. Why call the new model o3, not o2? Well, trademarks may be to blame. According to The Information, OpenAI skipped o2 to avoid a potential conflict with British telecom provider O2.

apparently to avoid infringing on the copyright of British telecom provider O2. While the new o3 models are not being released to the public just yet and there’s no word on when they’ll be ...

As a result a big change is afoot in the economics of a digital economy built on providing cheap services to large numbers of ...

The o3 model scored 87.5 percent and 75.7 percent ... (OpenAI reportedly avoided naming the model “o2” due to trademark conflicts with the British telecom company O2.) Gemini 2.0’s strength ...