Openai, the company behind this popular chatbot, chatgpta new AI model is being built. CEO Sam Altman said the model would be an “open weight” language model, according to CEO Sam Altman, who posted a tweet about the development on Monday.
The “Open Volume” AI model is a middle ground between open source and closed source methods. Weights are how AI models learn and establish connections – certain features or weights of connections to enhance specific information. As the FTC said, an open model means that its weights can be publicly available. This means that users will be able to see these weights and change them without having to re-record the model on new data.
Open models are often cheaper, can be used by companies and allow them to customize the models. For example, an enterprise can upload its internal documents into an existing open weight model to incorporate this information into its results without having to build the entire content from scratch.
However, open models are different from open source models. As the name suggests, the open source model allows you to see how it is made, sometimes besides how it is trained and weighted. In an open model, you can see how the model makes connections, but not necessarily its underlying code or training content. It all has to do with the degree of openness. Given that Openai’s records do not reveal what it is for training Chatgpt, the new open weight model may give people a glimpse of the back of the curtain, but nothing else.
Artificial intelligence companies are heating up the competition as each of them develops various models for different purposes. Openai’s new model has become a competitor to the Meta Llama model of the Meta Llama. Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly said that open source is the right way to develop AI. The new model also appears in China’s DeepSeek like AIS fights for the top champion. DeepSeek’s latest V3 model is reportedly leading this goal, which is also an open model. Open and open source models may threaten OpenAI’s subscription model by providing businesses with cheaper, more custom AI tools, so the company appears to be taking action to catch up with its competitors.
It is not clear when the new model will be released. Currently, OpenAI invites developers to submit feedback on making the model most useful. You can contribute this feedback in this form on the OpenAI website.
For more information, check out Gibley-style AI images made using Chatgpt’s new image generator and our full review of chatbots.
