On March 31, OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman announced on X that his company is working on a “powerful new open-weight language model,” and that it would be released in the coming months. It’s a ...

The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters, aiming to reclaim the open-weight lead from Chinese labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek.

Despite what its name suggests, OpenAI hadn’t released an “open” model—one that includes access to the weights, or the numerical parameters often described as the model’s brains—since GPT-2 in 2020.

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of two open-weight AI reasoning models with similar capabilities to its o-series. Both are freely available to download from the online developer platform, Hugging ...

OpenAI just dropped two new open-weights models. Here's why that isn't the same as being fully open. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video ...

Open source doesn’t guarantee responsible AI. But it increasingly makes responsible evaluation possible for smaller organizations.

This week, Google released a family of open AI models, Gemma 3, that quickly garnered praise for their impressive efficiency. But as a number of developers lamented on X, Gemma 3’s license makes ...

When DeepSeek released its DeepSeek reasoning model in early 2025, it tanked the US stock market. The Chinese startup showed a new way of training frontier AI that didn't rely on access to expensive, ...

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 ...

Think you have what it takes to become a model, or know someone else who has this dream? Whether you have modeling experience or not — here's your chance to walk the runway. Ross has been producing ...

An open modeling call, organized by fashion expert Jo Ross, was held at Mall St. Matthews. The event aimed to highlight Louisville's diverse community and offer modeling opportunities. Those chosen ...