Open Source OpenAI Models Released
AGI is one of those things we simply have to release as open source. The idea is that those having access to AGI will be at an unfare advantage compared to those not having it, so to ensure that such powers are equally divided amongst us all, open source models is the only way we can create and release AGI to the world.
For years OpenAI have released their models as closed source. Their arguments have been that the technology can be abused to create malicious AI models that somehow helps people to do "bad things". It's a valid argument, and it makes sense to some extent, but we risk creating a completely new casting system unless the most powerful AI is given indiscriminately to all humans - So the harm of closed source, is probably in the long run going to dwarf the amount of harm of open source. To illustrate the problem, imagine the following dilemma ...
Humans have invented AGI and ASI, but only Vladimir Putin have access to it
Regardless of what you think about Putin, I'm certain that the above is not something you'd want to see happen.
OpenAI going Open Source?
Today OpenAI released two models with open weights, these are called respectively;
- gpt-oss-120b
- gpt-oss-20b
Both of these models can be used through Ollama and HuggingFace. This allows you to host these models on your own hardware, 100% privacy guaranteed - And even fine tune these on your own hardware, allowing you to create "domain specific LLMs", without asking for permission. To give you an idea of how important this is, realise that a 3 year long feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk now seems to be "irrelevant" assuming OpenAI continues to release open weight models. In fact, the lack of openness was Elon's motivation to build 50 billion dollar data centres for his own open weight LLM called Grok. So this openness is actually the source of a 100 billion dollar quarrel in Silicon Valley.
What type of long term commitment OpenAI has towards open weights is still to be seen, but at least with today's announcement, we seem to be moving in the right direction at least. At AINIRO we believe in open source, to the extent that we've even completely open source licensed our own platform called Magic Cloud, so we're obviously happy for these news.
Conclusion
Will OpenAI go full open source? Well, maybe? It remains to be seen. They were started as an organisation dedicated to indiscriminately giving all humans access to AGI. A lot of their existing employees started working with OpenAI because of that promise. Completely severing their ties with the open source world might possibly do more harm to OpenAI over time than dripping some open source models every now and then. It could be a strategic choice to simply "silence the nah sayers", but it could also be a more dramatic move towards open source licensing their next flagship model expected to be named "GPT5". One thing is certain, and that's that unless OpenAI releases their GPT5 as open source, they run the risk of having DeepSeek release an AGI-level model as open source a couple of months later - And we suspect that whoever first releases an open source AGI-level model, will simply own the LLM space.
One thing is certain. If GPT5 is "AGI", whatever that means today, OpenAI's own charter dictates that they're supposed to give access to this model "indiscriminately to all humans on earth". Will they release GPT5 as open source? I don't know, and I don't want to guess, but their own charter kind of dictates they do this. I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. In the meantime you can use both of these "oss" models in Magic Cloud and our products if you want to try them out.
