With nearly one in 10 people on Earth using ChatGPT, OpenAI is at a turning point. Here's what you need to know.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is rapidly scaling toward 700 million weekly active users, marking an astonishing fourfold year-over-year increase from 500 million in

The two new models from OpenAI are available under the Apache 2.0 license, a popular choice for open-weight models. With Apache 2.0, models can be used for commercial purposes, redistributed, and included as part of other licensed software. Open-weight model releases from Alibaba’s Qwen as well as Mistral also operate under Apache 2.0.

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.