Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer

Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open-weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. “We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months,” the CEO wrote on X. The move is partly a response to the runaway success of the R1 model from Chinese company DeepSeek, as well as the popularity of Meta’s Llama models. Shortly after DeepSeek’s model was released in January, Altman said that OpenAI was “on the wrong side of history” regarding open models, signaling a likely shift in direction. On Monday he said that the company has been thinking about releasing an open-weight model for some time, adding “now it feels important to do.” OpenAI may feel the need to show that it can train the new model cheaply, since DeepSeek’s model was purportedly trained at a fraction of the cost of most large AI models. “This is amazing news,” Clement Delangue, cofounder and CEO of HuggingFace, a company that specializes in h ... Read full article.