• OpenAI plans to release a new open language model to advance AI accessibility.
  • The company has also secured $40 billion in funding at a $300 billion valuation.
  • The new model is expected to boost AI adoption while maintaining transparency.

OpenAI announced on Monday that it plans to release a new open-weight AI language model in the coming months. This version would include reasoning capabilities since GPT-2, according to CEO Sam Altman.

This development comes as the company secures $40 billion in fresh funding, pushing its post-money valuation to an impressive $300 billion.

With the language model's trained parameters being publicly accessible, many developers can access, analyze and modify the model for custom tasks without requiring any original training data.

Unlike the open source models like GPT-2 whose primary source code, training data and methodologies can be accessed, this new model will provide open-weight access, which would allow developers to adapt it while the underlying training data and methodologies remain proprietary.

"We’re excited to collaborate with developers, researchers, and the broader community to gather inputs and make this model as useful as possible,” OpenAI wrote on its website.

OpenAI also plans to host development events to gather feedback and demo prototypes, post-release of the model.

While the first event will take place in San Francisco, there are also multiple sessions lined up for later in Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.

“[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.

On Monday afternoon, Altman shared more details about OpenAI's open model plans in a post on X, stating that the upcoming model will feature "reasoning" capabilities similar to OpenAI’s o3-mini.

"We still have some decisions to make, so we are hosting developer events to gather feedback and later play with early prototypes," he said.

Altman added that OpenAI has been, in the past, on the wrong side of history when it comes to open-sourcing its technologies.

Edited By Annette George