Reddit asks what it would take for frontier labs to open old model weights

ythorne · reddit · 2026-07-28

A Reddit thread asks what would need to happen for frontier labs to open-source the weights of their old proprietary models.

The author says they would love to see deprecated systems like Gemini 2.5, OpenAI o3, GPT-4o, and GPT-4.1 released someday, and notes that Sam Altman once floated the idea of releasing original GPT-4 as a “museum artefact,” but no such release has happened.

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