OpenAI o3 vs. Google Gemini 2.0: Which Model Is Closer to Artificial General Intelligence?

2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal moment in A.I. innovation, driven by the race among tech giants to build artificial general intelligence (A.G.I.), or A.I. that can reach human-level intelligence. Recently, OpenAI and Google unveiled their respective new A.I. models: o3 and Gemini 2.0. OpenAI’s o3, announced on Dec. 20, is a reasoning model that CEO Sam Altman claims might achieve A.G.I. once it clears safety tests, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai touted Gemini 2.0 as the company’s “most thoughtful...