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OpenAI’s long-awaited return to the “open” of its namesake occurred yesterday with the release of two new large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B.
But despite achieving technical benchmarks on par with OpenAI’s other powerful proprietary AI model offerings, the broader AI developer and user community’s initial response has so far been all over the map. If this release were a movie premiering and being graded on Rotten Tomatoes, we’d be looking at a near 50% split, based on my observations.
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First some background: OpenAI has released these two new text-only language models (no image generation or analysis) both under the permissive open source Apache 2.0 license — the first time since 2019 (before ChatGPT) that the company has done so with a cutting-edge language model.
