CEO Sam Altman announced that the release of OpenAI’s first open model for years will be postponed until later this summer. Post on X Tuesday. Altman said that the open model will be released after June.
[W]We are going to take some more time with our model of open-weights, i.e. Expect it later this summer, but not [J]one,” he wrote. “[O]Our research team did something quite amazing, and we think that it will be worth the wait. But needs a little longer.”
We are going to take some more time with our model of open-weights, i.e. Expect it later in the summer, but not in June.
Our research team did something quite amazing, and we think that it will be worth the wait. But needs a little longer.
– Sam Altman (@sama).””https://twitter.com/sama/status/1932573231199707168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”” rel=””nofollow” “> OpenAI had set a release date of June 10, 2025,
for its open model. It was aiming for an early summer release. The model is expected to have “reasoning capabilities” similar to OpenAI’s O-series models. OpenAI wants its open model’s performance to be better than other open reasoning models such as DeepSeek R1. Since OpenAI announced its intention to release an Open model, the market has become more competitive. Mistral, another AI lab which releases open models often, released its first AI reasoning models called Magistral on Tuesday. In April, Qwen, a Chinese AI lab, released a family hybrid AI reasoning models which can switch between taking time to “reason through” problems and giving traditional, fast responses.
OpenAI is also considering adding complex features to its open AI to make it more competitive. TechCrunch reported earlier that OpenAI leaders had discussed enabling the open AI to connect to cloud-hosted AI models to answer complex queries. It’s not clear if these features are going to make it into the final version of the open model.
It seems that the release of OpenAI’s open model is important for the relationship between researchers and developers. Altman has said in the past that OpenAI is on the “wrongside of history” with regards to open-sourcing its models. To correct this image, the company is under immense pressure to release a model that is competitive with industry’s best offerings. Maxwell Zeff, a senior reporter for TechCrunch who specializes in AI, is available at
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