It seems like OpenAI are finally living up to their name for once with this release? Anything I'm missing?

From what I can gather:

1. Includes model weights. I can't find the URL, but they reference them enough and have a CLI tool, so I presume I just haven't found them yet.

2. Includes code: https://github.com/openai/whisper

3. Released under MIT License: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE

This kind of model is harder to abuse, so I guess it passed their internal checks much more easily.

I can understand not releasing GPT-3, even if I disagree with the decision.

> I can understand not releasing GPT-3, even if I disagree with the decision.

Why do you disagree?

Two reasons. First, someone else will release something similar. Second, I didn’t see a related push from them to work with other in the industry to do something productive towards safety with the time they got by delaying availability of these kinds of models. So it felt disingenuous.

Several groups already have. Facebook's OPT-175B is available to basically anyone with a .edu address (models up to 66B are freely available) and Bloom-176B is 100% open:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq

https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom