- Published on August 7, 2025
- In Global Tech
OpenAI’s Open-Weights Could Just Be the Prelude for io
The ChatGPT creator has gone open, nearly six years after GPT-2 launch in 2019.
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By Siddharth Jindal
OpenAI just launched two models — gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, under Apache 2.0, soon after the release of several advanced open-source models from China, including DeepSeek V3, Kimi K2, Qwen3-Coder, GLM-4.5, and MiniMax-M1, in an imminent push towards a return to its open-source roots.
These models aren’t just symbolic either, they’re punching in the same league as o4-mini and o3-mini. Clement Delangue, CEO and co-founder of Hugging Face, shared that OpenAI’s gpt-oss is now the number one trending model on the platform, out of nearly 2 million open models.
“China was dominating open source– multiple Qwen releases, Moonshot’s Kimi K2, etc. Now, OpenAI’s gpt-oss has matched them (maybe exceeded), with o4-mini level intelligence running locally,” said LinkedIn
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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