Despite what its name suggests, OpenAI hadn’t released an “open” model—one that includes access to the weights, or the numerical parameters often described as the model’s brains—since GPT-2 in 2020. That changed on Tuesday: The company launched a long-awaited open-weight model, in two sizes, that OpenAI says pushes the frontier of reasoning in open-source AI.
“We’re excited to make this model, the result of billions of dollars of research, available to the world to get AI into the hands of the most people possible,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the release. “As part of this, we are quite hopeful that this release will enable new kinds of research and the creation of new kinds of products.” He emphasized that he is “excited for the world to be building on an open AI stack created in the United States, based on democratic values, available for free to all and for wide benefit.”
