For the first time in five years, OpenAI has released two new free and open-source AI models that are lightweight and designed to be easily integrated into other software programs.

We all know AI relies on open-source software, but most of the big AI companies avoid opening their code or their large language model (LLM) weights. Today, things have changed. OpenAI, the artificial intelligence titan behind ChatGPT,

To understand why this is such a big deal, it helps to understand the difference between closed models and open models. Closed models, such as OpenAI’s o models or Anthropic’s