India, Aug. 6 -- OpenAI announced two new open-weight AI language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, on Tuesday, August 5. These models offer similar capabilities to the company's O-series, as reported by TechCrunch. This marks the first time since OpenAI rolled out GPT-2 in 2019.

The company stated that the text-only models have been specially designed to be used as lower-cost options, which can be easily run and customized by developers and researchers.

OpenAI's latest release comes after tech giants like Meta and Mistral AI, backed by Microsoft, as well as Chinese startup DeepSeek, unveiled their open-weight models in the past few years.

According to CNBC, the AI model is considered open weight when all its parameters or elements...