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OpenAI Slashes o3 Prices, Launches New Reasoning Model

By Agentive Studio

It's Thursday, June 12, 2025, and you're reading the Agentive Daily Report.

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OpenAI released o3-pro and slashed o3 prices by 80%, prioritizing precision over speed in AI reasoning
Meta is investing up to $15 billion in Scale AI and forming a new "superintelligence" lab to compete with OpenAI and Google
Apple's WWDC 2025 highlighted system-wide AI integration with ChatGPT access embedded directly into Siri
ChatGPT received a major voice update with more natural speech and real-time translation capabilities
Google launched Veo 3 Fast with doubled video generation speed and rolled out Project Mariner browser agent in Chrome

Today's Top Stories

OpenAI Unveils o3-pro and Dramatically Cuts Pricing

OpenAI has launched o3-pro, a new reasoning-focused model that outperforms Claude 4 Opus and Gemini 2.5 Pro in advanced scientific and mathematical tasks. The model is designed for step-by-step thinking, with expert evaluators consistently preferring it over standard o3 across science, education, programming, and data analysis tasks.

Alongside this release, OpenAI slashed prices for its base o3 model by 80%, from $10/$40 per million tokens to just $2/$8, making it substantially more affordable than competing models from Google and Anthropic. The new pricing structure appears strategically designed to encourage broader experimentation and adoption, similar to how AWS's price drops accelerated cloud computing adoption years ago.

Meta's $15 Billion Bet on Scale AI and Superintelligence

Meta is finalizing an investment of up to $15 billion in Scale AI, representing one of the largest external AI bets in Silicon Valley to date. The deal would give Meta a 49% stake in the data-labeling company and bring over co-founder Alexandr Wang to lead a new "superintelligence" lab aimed at outperforming OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

This move reflects a shift in Meta's AI strategy following Llama 4's underwhelming launch. Rather than building everything in-house, Meta appears to be carving a new path—outsourcing infrastructure while focusing on distribution. This investment comes as Meta is also reportedly offering seven-to-nine figure compensation packages to poach top AI researchers from competitors.

Apple Integrates ChatGPT into System-Wide Apple Intelligence

Apple's WWDC 2025 showcased extensive AI integration across its ecosystem, including a system-wide AI assistant branded as Apple Intelligence. The most significant announcement was Siri's ability to directly use ChatGPT (with user permission), alongside deeper AI suggestions and new system commands in iOS 26 and macOS Sequoia.

Rather than creating its own large language model to compete with GPT, Apple is prioritizing elegant integration of existing AI capabilities while maintaining its focus on privacy and user experience. This approach represents Apple's characteristic strategy of refining and integrating technologies rather than pioneering them, effectively turning the iPhone into an ambient AI assistant that doesn't need to "shout to be smart."

Fast Forward

  • ChatGPT Voice Mode Upgrade: OpenAI rolled out major updates to ChatGPT's Voice Mode with smoother, more conversational speech patterns, improved pacing and tone, and the ability to translate between languages mid-conversation.
  • Starling Bank's AI Finance Tool: Starling Bank launched a new AI feature that provides detailed analysis of users' spending habits, demonstrating AI's continued expansion into personal finance management and decision-making.
  • Google's Project Mariner: Google is gradually releasing an experimental browser-based agent embedded directly in Chrome that can handle navigation, form-filling, and transactional tasks across open tabs through a prompt-driven interface.
  • Veo 3 Fast Release: Google unveiled an upgraded version of its Veo video generation tool that can create videos more than twice as fast as its predecessor while maintaining 720p resolution, with plans to scale access to Workspace accounts and international users.
  • UK Government AI Initiative: The UK government partnered with Google DeepMind to launch "Extract," an AI tool that processes messy, handwritten, or scanned planning documents in seconds instead of hours, potentially accelerating infrastructure and housing decisions.

New Tools Discovered

  • Mindly: A visual knowledge management tool that automatically organizes notes and ideas, drawing connections between them in an interactive web-like interface.
  • Wondercraft: An AI audio studio for creating professional-quality podcasts, advertisements, and audiobooks using synthetic voices with customizable tone and multitrack editing.
  • Genspark: A browser-based agent platform with smart shopping capabilities, YouTube summaries, and over 700 app integrations that work autonomously across the web.
  • Korbit AI: Enterprise code review tool that accelerates engineering velocity by providing instant AI-powered analysis and maintaining high-quality standards across development teams.
  • Bilanc: Analytics platform that measures the impact of AI tools on developer productivity using insights from merged pull requests to quantify performance improvements.

Discover more tools at Agentive.Directory

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