Why Open Source AI May Be a ‘Marginal Player’

Why Open Source AI May Be a ‘Marginal Player’

How useful is open source AI?  As Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Baidu and Alibaba open their models to all, other firms have made their own open source plays in recent months. Elon Musk-owned xAI made the base model for Grok open source in March. OpenAI announced (and delayed) the release of its open weights model in June with the promise of something “unexpected and quite amazing” instead, according to CEO Sam Altman. And Meta’s Llama family…

OpenAI's open ChatGPT model has been delayed again

When DeepSeek released its DeepSeek reasoning model in early 2025, it tanked the US stock market. The Chinese startup showed a new way of training frontier AI that didn’t rely on access to expensive, high-end hardware. DeepSeek used software to make up for the premium Nvidia chips it couldn’t buy. That’s not the only thing DeepSeek did to induce panic. The startup released DeepSeek as an open-source model, allowing anyone on Earth to install the…

OpenAI delays its first open-source AI model challenging DeepSeek

Founder and CEO Sam Altman says the release will be indefinitely delayed for additional safety tests.

Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang has mulled abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model

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OpenAI Says Its Open-Source Reasoning AI Model Is Delayed Indefinitely

OpenAI announced another delay for the release of its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. On Saturday, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, said that due to additional time required to run safety tests, the release of the AI model was delayed indefinitely. This is the second such delay, after the company postponed the release in June.OpenAI announced another delay for the release of its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. On Sa…

OpenAI’s Open-Source Reasoning AI Model Delayed Again Due to This Reason

OpenAI announced another delay for the release of its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. On Saturday, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, said that due to additional time required to run safety tests, the release of the AI model was delayed indefinitely. This is the second such delay, after the company postponed the release in June.