i want to use the o3-mini but i cant find a definitive answer weather the API is able to atcually search the web for data and return what it found or only if you provide a link to a website and then it returns the data from that website? If you ask it in the web it says that it can. Can someone please confirm.
This was written on the official announcement and im not sure what it means:
“Additionally, o3-mini now works with search to find up-to-date answers with links to relevant web sources. This is an early prototype as we work to integrate search across our reasoning models.”
ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users can access OpenAI o3-mini starting today, with Enterprise access coming in February. o3-mini will replace OpenAI o1-mini in the model picker, offering higher rate limits and lower latency, making it a compelling choice for coding, STEM, and logical problem-solving tasks. As part of this upgrade, we’re tripling the rate limit for Plus and Team users from 50 messages per day with o1-mini to 150 messages per day with o3-mini. Additionally, o3-mini now works with search to find up-to-date answers with links to relevant web sources. This is an early prototype as we work to integrate search across our reasoning models.
It’s referring to the ChatGPT product, not the API.
If web search became available, it would likely be in the form of an assistants tool, probably independent of model selection. Since that’s not a thing at the moment, the definite answer would unfortunately be ‘No’.
Sorry. You’d have to build or provide your own tool
you’d have to provide a curl function or something.
with the VLMs like 4o and 1o (full) you can consider using selenium to navigate pages. There are also a number of open source tools out there that will help with this, but there’s nothing built-in.
