OpenAI to release new ‘open' language model in coming months
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OpenAI is gearing up to release its first open-weight language model since GPT-2 'in the coming months'.
That's according to a feedback form on the company's website that asked developers, researchers and the broader community for insight on how to 'make this model as useful as possible'.
CEO Sam Altman expanded on the decision on the social media platform
X
, saying that the launch 'feels important to do'.
Before its release, the company will evaluate the model with their 'preparedness framework' like they do with others, Altman added.
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The company will also be hosting developer sessions in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific to 'gather feedback' and play with early prototypes.
An open-weight
model
means the numerical parameters that impact the AI's output are public, but the training data may not be.
The move comes two months after Altman admitted on
Reddit
that OpenAI was 'on the wrong side of history' on more open models and that the company 'needs to figure out a different open source strategy'.
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Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, widely considered to be one of OpenAI's competitors, has an open
approach
to its models.
Its large language model, R1, is extremely fast and was low-cost to produce, which stunned the tech world when it was released in
January
.
OpenAI said in
January
that they had evidence that Chinese companies were trying to use the company's technology to train AI models.
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