An OpenAI ‘open’ model shows how much the company—and AI—has changed in two years

An OpenAI ‘open’ model shows how much the company—and AI—has changed in two years

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.  OpenAI says it will release an open-source model–but why now?  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that his company intends to release a “powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning” in the next few months. That would mark a major shift for a company that has ke…

In just a decade, OpenAI has gone from being a modest laboratory focused on general artificial intelligence (AGI) to becoming one of the most powerful and controversial names in the technology sector. What started as a non-profit initiative to develop safe and accessible AI is now in the process of transforming into a profit-making company, backed by multi-billion dollar investments and alliances with titans such as Microsoft and Apple. This shi…

OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, announced that it is building a more open generation Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) model, in the face of growing competition in this segment with rivals like DeepSeek. Until now, the company led by Sam Altman held a defense speech to closed and exclusive models that do not allow developers to modify basic technology to adapt Artificial Intelligence (IA) to their objectives. OpenAI gets its biggest round of investmen…