OpenAI announced its new o3 models on Friday.In a tweet ahead of its final livestream for its 12 Days of OpenAI event, the company confirmed previous reports that it is skipping the o2 generation due to copyright concerns, and is releasing early evals for the o3 model. It appears to be a successor to its o1 reasoning model.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced o3 and o3-mini on Friday, but said the company is not publicly launching these models at this time. OpenAI will start public safety testing on Friday, part of a new safety testing procedure with researchers that want to help the company test its models.According to The Information, OpenAI skipped o2 to avoid a potential conflict with British telecom provider O2.This story is developing