
AI assistants rely on sometimes opaque algorithmic logic to function. Some of the latest models, notably the ChatGPT's o3-mini model and the brand-new Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, lean into that reasoning element.
With both bragging about their reasoning chops, I decided it was time to throw them into a friendly competition. While they could fight to the decimal point over enterprise productivity or B2B integration pipelines, I wanted to see how they handled more prosaic logic problems and demands.