Quick answer: o1-mini is OpenAI's September 2024 cost-efficient reasoning model, a smaller sibling to o1-preview optimized for STEM tasks like coding and math. On Codeforces-style competitive-programming evals it reaches up to 1,820 Elo (93.4th percentile) under the DeepSeek-R1 comparison protocol, and 1,578 Elo (89.2th percentile) under the independent CodeElo protocol.
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Where it lags
This model isn’t on any benchmark leaderboard yet.