OpenAI is developing an open weights model in the US to become the most widely used globally, reflecting democratic values.
Kevin Weil of OpenAI aims for the best open weights model globally to be US-built, not Chinese.
The model is intended for global adoption, limiting strategic acceleration by adversarial states, positioned as a generation behind OpenAI's frontier models.
OpenAI's approach balances broad AI system access, national security, and value alignment, maintaining proprietary frontier models while making smaller models open-source.