Why Is the Open-Weight Model Delayed?
It’s been a few months since OpenAI initially announced its open-weight AI model, and the market hasn’t stayed still in the meantime. In fact, there has been some notable competition in the open-weight AI model space, with Meta, DeepSeek, and xAI all now offering open-weight options.
This may be adding to the pressure on OpenAI and Altman to provide a platform that is competitive enough to match expectations, leading to a delay on the guise of “something amazing” on the horizon.
“Our research team did something unexpected and quite amazing and we think it will be very very worth the wait, but needs a bit longer.” – Sam Altman on X
Whether or not OpenAI sticks to that summer deadline remains to be seen, but it’s safe to say the open-weight AI model better seriously impress given all this build-up.
