I think there are many things at play here, including shareholder and partner preferences (hi, MSTF). Making a model open source is also a headache, from the legal POV and also just logistics. They did not have to do it either. There was no pressure from competition. LLama was always many steps behind and it’s also “kinda” open-source, but not really a free software.
DeepSeek is both open-source and free software, with a permissive license with very few use restrictions.
I’m not saying Altman is enthusiastic for open-source models, but he will probably not be against it either if it’s something they will look into doing as a response to rise of other open source and free software models.
