OpenAI o4-mini Pro Launches with Breakthrough Chain-of-Verification Reasoning

249    2026-02-16

OpenAI released o4-mini Pro, featuring a new chain-of-verification (CoVe) reasoning mechanism that significantly reduces hallucinations in long-form reasoning, math olympiad-level problems, and multi-hop factual retrieval, achieving near-GPT-5.5 performance at much lower inference cost.