OpenAI seeks to make its upcoming ‘open’ AI model best-in-class
Towards the end of March, OpenAi announced his intention to release his first “open” language model since GPT -2 somewhere this year. Now details about that model are starting to drip from the company’s sessions with the AI Developer Community.
Sources tell WAN that Aidan Clark, OpenAi’s VP of research, leading development of the open model, which is in the very early stages. OpenAI focuses on an early summer release and wants to make the model-a-reasoning model in the lines of OpenAI’s O-series models-benchmark-Topping, among other things, open reasoning models.
OpenAI is investigating a very tolerant license for the model with little use or commercial limitations, according to the sources of WAN. Open models such as Llama and Google’s Gemma have been criticized by some in the community for imposing serious requirements – seems to avoid criticism OpenAi.
OpenAi is confronted with increasing pressure from rivals such as the Chinese AI Lab Deepseek that have followed an open approach for launching models. Unlike OpenAi’s strategy, these “open” competitors make their models available for the AI community for experiments and, in some cases, commercialization.
It has proved to be a hugely successful strategy for some outfits. Meta, who has invested heavily in his Lama family of Open AI models, said at the beginning of March that Llama has collected more than 1 billion downloads. In the meantime, Deepseek has quickly collected a large global user base and attracted the attention of domestic investors.
Sources tell TechCrunch that OpenAi is planning to be ‘text in, texts’ to make high -quality consumer hardware work and possibly enable developers to switch and disable his ‘reasoning’, similar to reasoning models that have recently been released by Anthropic and others. (Reasoning can improve the accuracy, but at the expense of increased latency.) If the launch is well received, OpenAI can follow with extra models possible with smaller models.
In earlier public comments, OpenAi CEO Sam Altman said that he thinks Openai has been on the wrong side of history when it comes to open sourcing his technologies.
‘[I personally think we need to] Find another open source strategy, “said Altman during a Reddit Q&A in January.” Not everyone at OpenAI shares this vision, and it is also not our current highest priority … We will produce better models [going forward]But we will keep less a lead than in previous years. “
Altman has also said that the upcoming open model of OpenAi will be thoroughly re -teamed and evaluated for safety. Sources tell WAN that the company is planning to release a model card for the model – a thorough technical report that shows the results of the internal and external benchmarking and safety tests of OpenAi.
‘[B]Emfore release, we will evaluate this model according to [to] Our preparedness framework, as we would do for any other model, ”Altman said last month in a message about X. ‘[A]And we will do extra work, since we know that this model will be changed after the release. “
OpenAi has raised the anger of some AI ethici Reportedly Raging safety tests of recent models and not releasing model cards for others. Altman is also accused of misleading OpenAi leaders about model safety assessments prior to his short expulsion in November 2023.
We have contacted OpenAI for comments and will update this piece when we hear again.
