o3 Operator
No estimate
No hardware requirements for this model
The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- OpenAI
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 23 May 2025
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Language, Vision, Multimodal
- Task
- Language modeling/generation, Question answering, System control, Code generation, Instruction interpretation, Search, Quantitative reasoning, Visual question answering, Character recognition (OCR)
- Base model
- o3,Computer-Using Agent (CUA)
Size
How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.
- Training data
- tokens
Availability
Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.
- Weights
- Closed — provider access only
- Model access
- Hosted access (no API)
- Training code
- Unreleased
The update, released globally today, May 23, 2025, is available as a “research preview” to paying subscribers of OpenAI’s $200 USD-monthly ChatGPT Pro plan.
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Likely above 10²³ FLOP
- Yes
- Record confidence
- Unknown
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Addendum to OpenAI o3 and o4-mini system card: OpenAI o3 Operator
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
About this model
o3 Operator was published by OpenAI, in the country recorded as United States of America, during May 2025. The publishing organisation is categorised as industry.
It works in the domain of Language, Vision, Multimodal, and is recorded as performing the task of language modeling/generation, Question answering, System control, Code generation, Instruction interpretation, Search, Quantitative reasoning, Visual question answering, Character recognition (OCR).
Rather than being trained from scratch, it is derived from o3,Computer-Using Agent (CUA). That is the usual way a specialised model is produced.
Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.
Answers
o3 Operator — common questions
o3 Operator— who created it?
It was published by OpenAI, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.
o3 Operator— when was it released?
It was published in May 2025.
o3 Operator— what is it used for?
It works in the domain of Language, Vision, Multimodal, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling/generation, Question answering, System control, Code generation, Instruction interpretation, Search, Quantitative reasoning, Visual question answering, Character recognition (OCR). Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.
o3 Operator— what GPU do I need to run it?
None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.
o3 Operator— is it open source?
No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
o3 Operator— how many parameters does it have?
No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.
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