OpenAI Intends to Launch a New Open AI Language Model in the Next Few Months

OpenAI announced it plans to release its first “open” language model since GPT-2 in the coming months. This information comes from a feedback form published on the company’s website on Monday.

OpenAI is inviting “developers, researchers, and members of the broader community” to fill out the form, which includes questions like, “What would you like to see in an open-weight model from OpenAI?” and “What open models have you used in the past?”

“We’re excited to collaborate with developers, researchers, and the broader community to gather input and make this model as useful as possible,” OpenAI stated. “If you’re interested in joining a feedback session with the OpenAI team, please let us know [in the form] below.”

OpenAI to Host Developer Events for Feedback and Model Previews

OpenAI also plans to host developer events to collect feedback and preview model prototypes. The first event will be held in San Francisco in a few weeks, followed by additional sessions in Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions.

OpenAI is under increasing pressure from competitors like the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which have adopted an “open” approach to launching models. Unlike OpenAI’s strategy, these competitors release their models to the AI community for experimentation and, in some cases, commercialization.

This open approach has been highly successful for some organizations. Meta, which has heavily invested in its Llama family of open AI models, reported in March that Llama had surpassed 1 billion downloads. Meanwhile, DeepSeek has quickly built a large global user base and attracted significant attention from domestic investors.

In a recent Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that the company may have been on the wrong side of the open-source debate.

Altman Calls for Rethinking Open-Source Strategy

“[I personally think we need to] figure out a different open-source strategy,” Altman said. “Not everyone at OpenAI shares this view, and it’s also not our current highest priority […] We will produce better models [going forward], but we will maintain less of a lead than we did in previous years.”

Altman further elaborated on OpenAI’s open model plans in a post on X, explaining that the company’s upcoming open model would feature “reasoning” capabilities similar to OpenAI’s o3-mini.

“[B]efore release, we will evaluate this model according to our preparedness framework, like we would for any other model,” Altman wrote. “[A]nd we will do extra work given that we know this model will be modified post-release […] [W]e’re excited to see what developers build and how large companies and governments use it where they prefer to run a model themselves.”

In a forthcoming book, excerpts published over the weekend by Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey suggest that Altman may have misled OpenAI executives about model safety reviews before his brief removal in November 2023.

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