OpenAI’s open-weight models are coming to the US military

WIRED

Lilt, an AI translation company, contracts with the US military to analyze foreign intelligence. Because the company’s software handles sensitive information, it must be installed on government servers and work without an internet connection, a practice known as air-gapping. Lilt previously developed its own AI models or used open source options such as Meta’s Llama and Google’s Gemma. But OpenAI’s tools were off the table because they were closed source and could only be accessed online.

The ChatGPT maker’s new open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, changed that. Both can run locally, meaning users have the freedom to install them on their own devices without needing a cloud connection. And with access to the models’ weights—key parameters that determine how they react to different prompts—users can tailor them for specific purposes.

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