Comment by wrsh07

4o is going to be better for a straight up factual question

(But eg I asked it about something Martin Short / John Mulaney said on SNL and it needed 2 prompts to get the correct answer..... the first answer wasn't making anything up it was just reasonably misinterpreting something)

It also has web search which will be more accurate if the pages it reads are good (it uses bing search, so if possible provide your own links and forcibly enable web search)

Similarly the latest Anthropic Claude Sonnet model (it's the new Sonnet 3.5 as of ~Oct) is very good.

The idea behind o3 mini is that it only knows as much as 4o mini (the names suck, we know) but it will be able to consider its initial response and edit it if it doesn't meet the original prompt's criteria