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OpenAI's shift toward open models has hit a new landmark. You can now download two open-weight reasoning models, similar to its o-series, right now on the developer platform Hugging Face.Why does this matter? OpenAI hasn't actually launched an open model since GPT-2 five years ago, and it has long prioritized closed-source, proprietary models. But with Meta's continued focus on its open Llama models, open models from Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Alibaba, and pressure from the Trump administration to foc ...