Microsoft Makes Openai’s New Open Model Available On Windows

OpenAI released a caller free and unfastened GPT model yesterday that tin tally connected a PC, and now Microsoft is making that easy to do for Windows users. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b exemplary is now disposable connected Windows AI Foundry, and will beryllium coming soon to macOS, too.

You’ll request a PC aliases laptop pinch astatine slightest 16GB of VRAM, truthful you’ll request 1 of nan apical GPUs from Nvidia aliases nan assortment of Radeon GPUs pinch capable VRAM. The gpt-oss-20b exemplary is optimized for codification execution and instrumentality use, and Microsoft says it’s “perfect for building autonomous assistants aliases embedding AI into real-world workflows, moreover successful bandwidth-constrained environments.”

Microsoft has pre-optimized gpt-oss-20b for section inference, and it hints that support for much devices is coming soon. That could mean we spot a much optimized type for Copilot Plus PCs astatine immoderate constituent successful nan future, overmuch for illustration really Microsoft has been adding a assortment of section AI models to Windows recently.

Microsoft’s speedy summation of OpenAI’s latest exemplary to nan Windows AI Foundry comes arsenic Amazon was arsenic quick to adopt nan caller open-weight GPT-OSS models for its unreality services. It’s nan first clip you tin tally an OpenAI exemplary locally connected Windows, but it’s besides nan first clip Microsoft’s biggest unreality competitor has had entree to nan latest OpenAI models — adding different move to nan complicated OpenAI and Microsoft partnership.