{"id":126216,"date":"2025-04-01T07:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126216"},"modified":"2025-04-01T07:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:15:57","slug":"openai-to-release-its-first-open-language-model-since-gpt-2-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126216","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI to release its first \u2018open\u2019 language model since GPT-2 in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsOpenAI is set to launch an \u201copen\u201d version of its language model this year, allowing developers to run the model on their own hardware.<br \/>\nIn an update posted to X on March 31, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the artificial intelligence firm would release the powerful \u201cnew open-weight language model with reasoning\u201d in the coming months but first wanted to gather feedback about \u201chow to make it maximally useful.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been thinking about this for a long time, but other priorities have taken precedence. Now it feels important to do,\u201d he said, adding it was the first \u201copen-weight\u201d model since GPT-2 in 2019.<br \/>\nAdding that: \u201cWe still have some decisions to make, so we are hosting developer events to gather feedback and later play with early prototypes.\u201d<br \/>\nSource: Sam AltmanAn open-weight language model is publicly available for anyone to use, download, modify or deploy for their own purposes. It\u2019s not as open as an open-source model, but it would be a change from GPT-3 and GPT-4, which were fully closed.<br \/>\nAltman said developer events for GPT-2 will start in San Francisco, California \u2014 where OpenAI is headquartered \u2014 in the next few weeks, followed by sessions in Europe and the Asia\u2013Pacific region, according to Altman.<br \/>\nSource: Steven Heidel\u201cWe\u2019re excited to see what developers build and how large companies and governments use it where they prefer to run a model themselves,\u201d Altman said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will do extra work given that we know this model will be modified post-release.\u201d<br \/>\nOpenAI\u2019s first \u201copen\u201d model\u201d since GPT-2 in 2019<br \/>\nOpenAI\u2019s open-weight language model GPT-2 was partially released in February 2019, followed by a full release in November of the same year.<br \/>\nRelated: \u2018Our GPUs are melting\u2019 \u2014 OpenAI puts limiter in after Ghibli-tsunami<br \/>\nAltman also said on Feb. 12 his firm wants to ship GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 in the coming weeks or months.<br \/>\nThe AI arms race has been heating up with the launch of rival DeepSeek, which functions similarly to ChatGPT but was reportedly created at a fraction of the cost and time.<br \/>\nAlibaba Group launched its new open-source AI model for cost-effective AI agents on March 26, while Google introduced Gemini 2.5, its latest experimental artificial intelligence model, on March 25.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a March 19 Threads post that the firm\u2019s AI model family, Llama, released in February 2023, had hit 1 billion downloads.<br \/>\nMagazine: \u2018Chernobyl\u2019 needed to wake people to AI risks, Studio Ghibli memes: AI Eye<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/open-ai-plans-release-first-open-language-model-since?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsOpenAI is set to launch an \u201copen\u201d version of its language model this year, allowing developers to run the model on their own hardware. In an update posted&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}