Text Embedding 3 Small turns text of up to about 8 pages into a fingerprint of its meaning, so search finds passages that mean the same thing even when the words differ. It replaces the older ada-002 and is the sensible default for search over your documents, grouping similar messages or labelling them.
GPT-4o-mini Search Preview
by OpenAIReleased 12 March 2025
GPT-4o mini Search Preview is a specialized model for web search in Chat Completions. It is trained to understand and execute web search queries.
Reads about 120 pages · writes up to 16 pages
Parameters you can send
Standard OpenAI fields, grouped by what they control. Anything not listed is accepted and ignored.
Shaping the reply
How long, how varied, where to stop.
max_tokensStructured output
Get JSON you can parse instead of prose.
response_formatstructured_outputsOther
Also accepted by this model.
web_search_optionsQuestions about GPT-4o-mini Search Preview
Is GPT-4o-mini Search Preview still on sale?
No. OpenAI has retired it. Other OpenAI models are on sale.
What is GPT-4o-mini Search Preview best for?
The lab has not said.
Does GPT-4o-mini Search Preview work in Arabic, French or Darja?
OpenAI names no languages for GPT-4o-mini Search Preview. Arabic, French and Darja: not stated.
Can it read PDFs, images or a whole book?
It reads text. Up to 128K tokens in one request, about 120 pages. It writes up to 12 000 words at once.
Is GPT-4o-mini Search Preview open source?
No. OpenAI has not published its weights.
Who makes GPT-4o-mini Search Preview, and when was it released?
OpenAI. Released 12 March 2025. It knows the world up to 31 October 2023.
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