Codex for open source

 (openai.com)

108 points | by EvgeniyZh 2 days ago

16 comments

  • zmmmmm 9 minutes ago
    Seems rather stingy - 6 months is barely longer than you will get on a free signup deal for a lot of online products anyway. Kind of worse than nothing if it causes you to adopt work patterns that aren't sustainable for the project after the offer ends.
  • vldszn 39 minutes ago
    I applied for the first time a couple of months ago and again this month, but unfortunately I haven’t heard back from them :(

    I’m building EasyInvoicePDF - a free and open-source invoice generator. (900+ GitHub stars, 2k monthly users on average, 10k total invoices downloaded)

    https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf

  • fortuitous-frog 1 hour ago
    FYI this program is ~3 months old, and Anthropic has a similar Claude for Open Source program (see https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss).
  • 28304283409234 46 minutes ago
    6 whole months?! Gee golly thanks mister!
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    • hnthrow10282910 32 minutes ago
      Agreed. Seems like it should be indefinite given they created a multi billion dollar company off the backs of these maintainers dedicating their hard earned timed for free to begin with and then trained models against their code.

      IMO this is an insult if anything

  • ilia-a 1 hour ago
    I did fill the form our a while back (it was around for a few months now) without any response. I guess must be really big OSS project for maintainer to qualify.
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  • drw 1 hour ago
    Mycli (https://github.com/dbcli/mycli) is a happy recipient of sponsorship from this program. OpenAI asked for nothing in return; not even a link.
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  • hmokiguess 58 minutes ago
    What does this clause here mean and why would they include it? https://developers.openai.com/codex/codex-for-oss-terms#7-su...

    Isn't the thing open source and governed by its own license?

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    • arjie 53 minutes ago
      That is interesting. I would have thought they had that right without needing to add it to the ToS.
  • upghost 39 minutes ago
    theprimagen called this[1] like three days ago. That was fast.

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-bT5v5Tm7w&t=164s

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    • jasonjmcghee 29 minutes ago
      They’ve been doing this since at least March
  • 2001zhaozhao 1 hour ago
    I think programs like this are cool, the company gets to promote their product and do good at the same time. This looks like a broader program than past ones and giving out GPT5.5 could be meaningful in improving open-source projects' security.
  • monster_truck 2 hours ago
    How is this different from https://openai.com/form/codex-open-source-fund/ and are the winners listed anywhere? I've only ever seen devs say it isn't worth bothering, many of which I would've expected to be shoe ins for something like this.
  • winfredJa 1 hour ago
    my guess is they get high quality training data.
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    • measurablefunc 1 hour ago
      This is correct. The most valuable form of data for any AI company is corrective feedback from real use cases.
  • vintagedave 1 day ago
    I wonder how well this supports niche languages. There's an indication there for stars or other signals of importance to 'the ecosystem'; that could match the Big Libraries but likely not ones for small languages.
  • sscaryterry 1 hour ago
    Hurdles, more hurdles.
  • ReptileMan 1 hour ago
    The moment a corporation starts to endorse open source is the moment they admit they know that are behind.
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    • SweetSoftPillow 1 hour ago
      Anthropic published essentially the same offering recently. By your logic, does that mean they're behind too?
  • realo 1 hour ago
    After what just happened to Anthropic, no way in hell will I ever use, support or give money to Kushner's OpenAI.
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