Experience the latest innovation by OpenAI: Trying out the newly released gpt-oss, open-weight models designed for laptop usage
In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), competition is heating up, and China's DeepSeek AI and other Chinese labs are making significant strides, putting pressure on US tech companies to stay ahead in the global AI race.
Last month, the Trump administration urged American AI developers to open source more of their technology, aiming to promote innovation that aligns with "American values" and maintain a strategic edge.
Now, OpenAI, a leading AI research company, has joined the open-source movement by releasing two open-weight AI reasoning models for free download. The new models, named gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, are available for download on Hugging Face.
Open-weight models, like these new releases from OpenAI, are AI models whose learned weights and architecture are publicly accessible. This transparency allows for the customization of the model itself without necessarily providing the entire training pipeline or dataset. While these models are not fully open source in the strictest sense, the training data is not included.
The gpt-oss-120b model is the larger and more powerful of the two, capable of running on a single Nvidia GPU. Its lighter counterpart, gpt-oss-20b, is designed for consumer laptops with 16GB of RAM, making it a more accessible option for a broader audience.
These new models are billed as state-of-the-art and excel at tool use, efficient deployment on consumer hardware, and reasoning. They mark a significant step forward, not just for OpenAI, but for the broader open AI ecosystem.
The recent release of open-weight models by OpenAI is a response to the global AI competition, particularly from China. This move by OpenAI to release open-weight models is a notable change in direction, as the company has shifted towards a more closed and proprietary approach to its language model development in recent years.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, the parent company of the website, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems. Despite this legal dispute, OpenAI continues to push the boundaries of AI research and development.
The new OpenAI models are a nod to the company's early roots, when it was more publicly committed to open-sourcing its models. This release is a testament to OpenAI's ongoing commitment to innovation and collaboration in the AI field.
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- The competition in the global AI race, particularly from China, has prompted OpenAI, a leading AI research company, to join the open-source movement, a shift from their recent closed and proprietary approach.
- In response to this global AI competition, OpenAI has released two open-weight AI reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, which are now available for free download on Hugging Face.
- These new models from OpenAI, while not fully open source in the strictest sense, are significant steps forward, excelling at tool use, efficient deployment on consumer hardware, and reasoning.
- The AI technology world, including entities like Google and Twitter, is closely watching this open-source movement and the developments in artificial-intelligence, with China's DeepSeek AI and other labs also making substantial progress.
