This is so lame. This feels like another desperate attempt to stay relevant cobbled together after the DeepSeek announcement last week. What was the other attempt they made? Skip a version number to seem like more progress was made (o1->o3)? From what I can tell "o3" is just the same as o1 with an extra reasoning-effort parameter.

Oh and "Deep research" is available to people on the $200 per month plan? Lol - cool. I've been using DeepSeek a lot more recently and it's so incredibly good even with all the scaling issues.