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gpt-oss

OpenAI’s 2025 open-weight reasoning branch, with two MoE models for different deployment sizes.

First model
2025
Models
2
Latest dated version
gpt-oss-20b

01 / LINEAGE MAP

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  1. 2025-08-05gpt-oss-120bLanguage · Reasoning
  2. 2025-08-05gpt-oss-20bLanguage · ReasoningSibling · gpt-oss-120b

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What changed

01

gpt-oss-120b

An open reasoning model with 117B total and 5.1B active parameters per token, for customization and tool workflows.

02

gpt-oss-20b

The smaller open reasoning tier, with 21B total and 3.6B active parameters per token, targeting local deployment and lower latency.