PYMNTS.com February 2, 2025
OpenAI is reportedly reconsidering its recent shift to a closed-source development approach.
The artificial intelligence (AI) developer had adopted that approach after starting as an open-source company, but is now rethinking it after DeepSeek’s release of a lower cost open-source AI model, Seeking Alpha reported Saturday (Feb. 1), citing OpenAI executives’ comments during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” event held Friday (Jan. 31).
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during the event that OpenAI needs to “figure out a different open-source strategy,” according to the report.
He added that not everyone at OpenAI shares that view and that figuring out the strategy is “not our current highest priority,” per the report.
OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil said during the same...
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