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OpenAI is once again doing side quests in the lead up to the launch of GPT-5. As we wait for the big update, OpenAI is pausing to bring us not one, but two entirely separate models to play with.
Both of these new models are available to download for free to anyone with some coding ability via Hugging Face.
Article continues belowWhat are open-weight models?
Quite simply, an open-weight model is one where all of its training parameters are made publicly available. Developers can access these, analyzing and fine tuning them for their own projects.
In such a competitive market, it seems strange for this to be a thing. And yet, it is a very popular option, with some of the most powerful models on the market being open-weighted.
Of course, GPT-5 won’t be, neither would the likes of Grok and Claude’s top models. But that isn’t to say that this new option from OpenAI isn’t powerful.
When put through tests, OpenAI’s two new models both performed ahead of Deepseek’s R1 and in a similar line to some of OpenAI’s other reasoning models.
In both models, the full chain of thought can be accessed, making for easier debugging of code and higher trust in the models.
What does this mean for you?
If you’re a developer in the AI space, this will be big news for you. OpenAI took a long break from offering out its weights available to the public, and there is a clear shift in their thinking for this to become available.
For everybody else, this won’t be of much importance. The big update for the average person will be GPT-5 when that launches in the next week or so.
OpenAI did promise a lot of big updates in the next few weeks, with this just being the starter for the main course soon to come.
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