OpenAI’s new algorithms, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, are available under an open-source license. Anthropic, for its part, released an upgraded version of its proprietary Claude Opus 4 large language model. The update improves upon the LLM’s coding capabilities, which the company claims already outperformed the competition.

It’s the first such models it’s launched in over five years, as pressure in the US grows to respond to China’s dominance in open models.

OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run locally on consumer devices and be fine-tuned for specific purposes.