Yishan Urges OpenAI to Open Source GPT-5.5 Weights After Price Cut Reports

Seriously though, we really really need one of the US frontier labs to open source one of their frontier-1 model weights. This would stem the overwhelming tide of Chinese OSS model dominance, which is much farther along than most people realize.

@yishan Open sourcing a model that is better than your competitors’ makes no sense strategically. You’re just accelerating them for no gain; they still need to harvest the gains from that model’s capex.

@yishan this is not what you do "in boxing"

@yishan @JohnGal43951639 How would make them money?

@yishan Wouldn’t this have the exact opposite effect? I don’t follow the logic of how releasing US frontier secrets would do anything other than accelerate Chinese OSS dominance - which is temporary as those models will be forcibly closed by the CCP as soon as they’re competitive.

@yishan @grok nah

@yishan parry*

@yishan And give away the secret sauce to their ipo at 1tn?!

@yishan It’s like asking Apple to open source iOS to compete with Android. Won’t work long term because their heart won’t be in it. They won’t be “All in” into the OSS project.

@yishan they won't because they are not going to get the ROI from it

@yishan The models do not have a nationality. These open weigt models have created immense value for US enterprises and competition is always better for consumer surplus.

@yishan Open-sourcing GPT-5.5 would not give users GPT-5.5. It would give GPU landlords GPT-5.5 and give normal users another API bill.

@yishan @romainhuet

@yishan Maybe rewrite this one with another try at a sports analogy. With all due respect, ydksab