Launching o3-mini in the API

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I am very happy with this model, this is probably the first time I can “3 shot” a functioning 9x9 go board.

This is not something I could do with previous models, the only shortcut in the past was to hint the model to use a canvas (which works, but does not give the same quality artifact), I was able to do this in 10 shots or so on Sonnet, but o3 is just so far ahead of that with reasoning effort high.

A small Go board shows a partial game with three black stones and one white stone placed on it. (Captioned by AI)
A small Go board shows a partial game with three black stones and one white stone placed on it. (Captioned by AI)828×1026 29.3 KB

Quality of the artifact is impressive.

Prompts were:

make me a fully functioning 9x9 go board
looks good but the stones are not rendering on the intersection, missing hoshi points, missing capturing logic
getting there, stones are not rendering on intersections like they should

Evolution was:

Shot 1

A Go board with a black stone in the center and a white stone on the left side, along with a "Reset Board" button below. (Captioned by AI)
A Go board with a black stone in the center and a white stone on the left side, along with a "Reset Board" button below. (Captioned by AI)833×791 22.2 KB

Shot 2

The image shows a 9x9 Tan Go board with five marked star points, accompanied by a "Reset Board" button at the bottom. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a 9x9 Tan Go board with five marked star points, accompanied by a "Reset Board" button at the bottom. (Captioned by AI)779×729 11.8 KB

Shot 3 was working… reasoning effort was high.