OpenAI's Free Models Now Match Their Best Paid Ones (and GPT-5 This Thursday?)

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August 7, 2025
From AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream. First aired: 6 August 2025 Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/3djXXQuDQYw Get the full notes and summary: https://newsletter.aiwithkyle.com/subscribe Subscribe and tun on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@iamkylebalmer?sub_confirmation=1 OpenAI just released their first truly competitive open source models called GPT-OSS, matching their frontier O3 performance while you can run them locally for free. This could be a game-changer as it puts America back in the open source AI race against China, especially after Meta pulled back from releasing powerful open models. The timing suggests GPT-5 might drop Thursday, making this OpenAI's biggest week yet.