Previously, OpenAI had planned an early summer release date for its open model, but that was later delayed. The company had planned to release the model next week, but it seems like we will have to wait longer for the release.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman today announced that the release is again delayed as the company needs time to run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas. He added, “While we trust the community will build great things with this model, once weights are out, they can’t be pulled back. This is new for us, and we want to get it right.”
OpenAI’s open model will be made available for developers to freely download and run locally. It is said that the upcoming open model is slated to have similar reasoning capabilities to OpenAI’s o-series of models, while the model is expected to compete with other open reasoning models like DeepSeek’s R1. The CEO has not revealed the exact launch timeline for when this model will be officially released.
But for now, developers will have to wait a bit more to try OpenAI’s open model.
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