Opinion: OpenAI Open-Sourcing SOTA Models Will Usher in a New AI Era
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-07-17
The author predicts that the end of the current wave of accelerated AI development—and the beginning of the next phase—will be marked by OpenAI open-sourcing its most advanced (SOTA) models. Only then will OpenAI truly embody the "Open" in its name.
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