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Hugging Face CTO Julien Chaumond argues OpenAI should return to open source to secure its legacy

An engineer responded by highlighting OpenAI's local Codex agent

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Julien Chaumond@julien_c#335inTech

If openai wants to make history now, all they need to do is to become open again

1:29 PM · Jun 11, 2026 · 8.3K Views
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Many users dismissed calls for OpenAI to open-source its models again as hypocritical or unrealistic, accusing the company of closed practices and profit-driven motives.

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Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav@reach_vb

@julien_c ok

https://github.com/openai/codex

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Oli Wilkins@okwilkins

@julien_c Let's all buy the entire $1T OpenAI IPO and vote to open-source everything! Problem solved.

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Doug Champion@DougChampion

@reach_vb @julien_c Literally doesn’t accept open contributions. Open it back up so the current 6,300+ issues can actually be fixed by the people that have the issue. It was a huge regression to close it off. We no longer get engagement from OAI codex team for pressing issues, users are ghosted

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tsunami_crypto@ls_brd

@julien_c two openais in one timeline is already breaking my brain

dont let them do it

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hadesdevs@hadesdevs

@julien_c Or just rename themselves into closedai, but openai being open would be better

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7rtp@fredyfredo123

@reach_vb @julien_c You like Formula 1.

Me too

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broadfield-dev@broadfield_dev

@julien_c If @OpenAI were to become competitive with DeepSeek in open source, they may start gaining some brand loyalty. Personally, I have no use for OpenAI Anthropic or Xai, open source is way cheaper, customizable, and easier to develop around.

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Sami Hindi@DevBySami

@reach_vb @julien_c Your definition of Open is skewed.

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Snider@Snider_dev

@julien_c

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Jason Wang@JasonWang140136

@okwilkins @julien_c !!!

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Ai Eon@AiEonEe

@julien_c But scammer Sam wants his multi billion payout...

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Invincible@InvincibleEdge

@julien_c the call is coming from inside the house on this one

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Blissy@BlissyOnX

@julien_c the double meaning actually lands perfectly here

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