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 present Microsoft is making that casual to bash for Windows users. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b exemplary is present disposable connected Windows AI Foundry, and volition beryllium coming soon to macOS, too.

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

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

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