Why is OpenAI cautious about open-sourcing its most capable frontier foundation models?
Replied bySam Altman
Co-founder & CEO at OpenAI
Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. $2 Billion/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015
As models approach frontier capabilities in complex reasoning, cyber operations, and biological synthesis, releasing unconstrained model weights without safeguards creates severe asymmetrical risks. We must balance broad developer accessibility with responsible stewardship to prevent malicious exploitation at scale.
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