New AI strategy: OpenAI introduces open-weight model

OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight language model with reasoning capabilities since GPT-2 in the coming months.

According to Reuters, CEO Sam Altman said this earlier this week. The new model will enable developers to analyze and refine the trained parameters or so-called weights for specific tasks, all without the need for the original training data.

In contrast to open-source models, where the full source code, training data and methodologies are…