Regulations and trying to earn good will of developers using local LLMs, something that was slowly eroding since it was a while ago (GPT2 - 2019) they released weights to the public.
If the new gpt 5 is actually better, then this oss version is not really a threat to Openai's income stream, but it can be a threat to their competitors.
Im spec’ing out a Mac Studio with 512GB ram because I can window shop and wish but I think the trend for local LLMs is getting really good.
Do we know WHY openAI even released them?