Sam Altman says

Sam Altman revealed this today OPENAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence Model in the coming months.

“We are glad to release a powerful new model of open -ended with reasoning in the coming months,” Altman writes on xS

Altman said in the publication that the company has been thinking of launching an open weight model for some time, adding “now it’s important to do.”

This move is partly a response to the success of avoiding R1 model from Chinese company Deepseekas well as the popularity of Meta’s Llama modelsS

Openai may also feel the need to show that it can train the new model more cheaper, since the Deepseek model has been trained with part of the price of most large AI models.

“This is incredible news,” Huggingface, a company that specializes in hosting open AI models, told Wired Cleming, co -founder and CEO. “With Deepseek everyone is aware of the power of open weights.”

Openai is currently providing its AI to a chatbot and through the cloud. R1, Llama and other open weight models can be downloaded free of charge and modified. The weight of the model refers to the values ​​in a large neural network – something that is set during training. Open weight models are more expensive to use and can be adapted for cases of sensitive uses, such as processing high confidential information.

Stephen Heidel, a member of technical staff at Openai, Reposted Altman Message and added “We launch a model this year that you can start on your own hardware.”

Openai today also publishes a web page Invite developers Apply for early access to the upcoming model. Atman said in his publication that the company would host events for developers with early prototypes of the new model in the coming weeks.

Meta was the first major AI company to strive for a more open approach by releasing The first version of Llama In July 2023 a A growing number of models with an open weight AI They are now available. Some researchers note that llama and some other models are not as transparent as they could be Because training data and other details are still kept secret. Meta also imposes a license that limits other companies’ ability to profit from applications and tools built using Llama.

Update 3/31/25 4:21 EST: This article was updated with a comment from Clement Delangue, co -founder and CEO of Huggingface.