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Sam Altman: In terms of open source, OpenAI has been on the “wrong side of history.”

OpenAI is in a somewhat vulnerable situation. It is fighting the idea that Chinese firms like DeepSeek, which OpenAI claims may have stolen its intellectual property, are gaining headway in the AI race. The creator of ChatGPT has reportedly been setting the foundation for one of the biggest funding rounds in history while attempting to strengthen its ties with Washington and pursue an ambitious data center project.

Altman stated that he thinks OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” in terms of open-sourcing its technologies, and he acknowledged that DeepSeek has reduced OpenAI’s advantage in AI. Although OpenAI has previously made its models publicly available, the company has often preferred a closed-source, proprietary development methodology.

“[I personally think we need to] figure out a different open source strategy,” Altman said. “Not everyone at OpenAI shares this view, and it’s also not our current highest priority … We will produce better models [going forward], but we will maintain less of a lead than we did in previous years.”

In a follow-up reply, Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer, said that OpenAI is considering open-sourcing older models that aren’t state-of-the-art anymore. “We’ll definitely think about doing more of this,” he said, without going into greater detail.

“DeepSeek has pushed OpenAI to maybe publish more about how its so-called reasoning models, like the o3-mini model released today, show their “thinking process,” 

“In addition to making the company rethink its release policy,” Altman said. In order to prevent competitors from stealing training data for their own models, OpenAI currently conceals fundamental logic in its algorithms. However, R1, the reasoning model of DeepSeek, shows its whole line of reasoning.

“We’re working on showing a bunch more than we show today — [showing the model thought process] will be very very soon,” Weil added. “TBD on all — showing all chain of thought leads to competitive distillation, but we also know people (at least power users) want it, so we’ll find the right way to balance it.”

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