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1. OpenAI Releases New Models That Think with Images (o3 and o4-mini)

OpenAI’s new o3 and o4‑mini models in ChatGPT can “look” at a picture you hand them and reason about it step‑by‑step: cropping, zooming, rotating, running code, and even searching the web before they answer you, all in a single native model.

If you’d like to see the power of this, check out this short 40-second video from OpenAI.

The takeaway

Just as large‑language models (LLMs) turned every document into a knowledge base, o3’s visual reasoning can now turn every photo, slide, scan, or diagram into structured, actionable information (without stitching together half a dozen niche tools).

So think about how your team can now free up some of their time they spend on routine visual task by using ChatGPT’s o3 instead.

2. Stanford’s 2025 AI Index Report

Stanford University recently released their 2025 AI Index Report.

The full report is worth checking out, but here are 3 top takeaways for leaders

1. Business is all in on AI: In 2024, U.S. private AI investment grew to $109.1 billion—nearly 12 times China’s $9.3 billion and 24 times the U.K.’s $4.5 billion.

2. Complex reasoning remains a challenge: AI models often fail to reliably solve logic tasks even when provably correct solutions exist, limiting their effectiveness in high-stakes settings where precision is critical.

3. The U.S. still leads in producing top AI models—but China is closing the performance gap: In 2024, U.S.-based institutions produced 40 notable AI models, significantly outpacing China’s 15 and Europe’s three. While the U.S. maintains its lead in quantity, Chinese models have rapidly closed the quality gap in performance differences on major benchmarks such as MMLU

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4. One Prompt You Can Use at Work Today

Here’s a practical ChatGPT Prompt you can use at work:

For example,