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Facing stiff competition from rivals, ChatGPT owner OpenAI Monday announced it is planning to release an open-weight artificial intelligence model in the next few months

Wednesday April 2, 2025 8:26 PM, Technology Desk

Facing stiff competition from rivals, ChatGPT owner OpenAI Monday announced it is planning to release an open-weight artificial intelligence model in the next few months.

“We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months,” Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, wrote in a post on social media platform X.

What is Open Source?

Open source refers to software whose source code is made publicly available, allowing users to freely access, use, modify, and distribute it. It's a collaborative, community-driven approach to software development.

The first popular open source software is Linux.

Further confirming that the company is planning to release its first open language model since GPT 2 in the coming months, the AI giant also invited developers, researchers and experts of the field to collaborate.

“We’re excited to collaborate with developers, researchers, and the broader community to gather inputs and make this model as useful as possible”, OpenAI said in a message posted on its website.

The announcement comes as OpenAI faces increasing competition from Chinese rivals DeepSeek and Meta, both of which have championed open-source AI.

Why delay?

Altman had given a hint of the company's future plan shortly after DeepSeek’s R1 model was released in January, when he said that OpenAI was “on the wrong side of history” regarding open models.

"We’ve been thinking about this for a long time but other priorities took precedence. now it feels important to do", Altman wrote on Monday.

Open-source models, such as Meta’s Llama family and DeepSeek’s lower-cost R1 model, offer organizations greater control by allowing them to download and adapt the AI for their specific needs.

OpenAI currently makes its AI available through a chatbot and through the cloud. DeepSeek R1, Meta Llama and other open-weight models can be downloaded for free and modified.

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