gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI · · 159 days after GPT-4.5
Verified
3 of 3 published values traced to a source4 primary sources, 4 archived
Why this status
Split from the former "gpt-oss" record, which was named for the family while holding one variant's figures. Evidence: "gpt-oss-120b is our most powerful open-weight model, which fits into a single H100 GPU (117B parameters with 5.1B active parameters)." Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: tool_use: “Both models also perform strongly on tool use, few-shot function calling, CoT reasoning (as seen in results on the Tau-Bench agentic evaluation suite) and HealthBench (ev” | function_calling: “Both models also perform strongly on tool use, few-shot function calling, CoT reasoning (as seen in results on the Tau-Bench agentic evaluation suite) and HealthBench (ev” | agentic: “Both models also perform strongly on tool use, few-shot function calling, CoT reasoning (as seen in results on the Tau-Bench agentic evaluation suite) and HealthBench (ev” | reasoning: “Similar to the OpenAI o-series reasoning models in the API, the two open-weight models support three reasoning efforts—low, medium, and high—which trade off latency vs.” | coding: “Evaluations We evaluated gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b across standard academic benchmarks to measure their capabilities in coding, competition math, health, and agentic t”.
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OpenAI's larger open-weight model, fitting on a single 80GB GPU.
Details
| Released | August 5, 2025stated in openai.com, arxiv.org, huggingface.cogpt-oss-120b was released on August 5, 2025.
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| Company | OpenAI |
| Family | GPT-OSS |
| Released alongside | gpt-oss-20b |
| Era | Reasoning models |
| Type | Language model · LLM |
| Modalities | Text → Text |
| Capabilities | Agentic, Coding, Function calling, Reasoning, Tool use |
| Weights | Open weights |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Context window | 131K tokensstated in developers.openai.comgpt-oss-120b supports a context window of 131,072 tokens.
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| Parameters | 117Bstated in openai.com, developers.openai.com, huggingface.cogpt-oss-120b has 116,830,000,000 parameters.
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Current information, elsewhere
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Sources
Record status: verified · confidence 90/100 · 4 of 4 primary
Split from the former "gpt-oss" record, which was named for the family while holding one variant's figures. Evidence: "gpt-oss-120b is our most powerful open-weight model, which fits into a single H100 GPU (117B parameters with 5.1B active parameters)." Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: tool_use: “Both models also perform strongly on tool use, few-shot function calling, CoT reasoning (as seen in results on the Tau-Bench agentic evaluation suite) and HealthBench (ev” | function_calling: “Both models also perform strongly on tool use, few-shot function calling, CoT reasoning (as seen in results on the Tau-Bench agentic evaluation suite) and HealthBench (ev” | agentic: “Both models also perform strongly on tool use, few-shot function calling, CoT reasoning (as seen in results on the Tau-Bench agentic evaluation suite) and HealthBench (ev” | reasoning: “Similar to the OpenAI o-series reasoning models in the API, the two open-weight models support three reasoning efforts—low, medium, and high—which trade off latency vs.” | coding: “Evaluations We evaluated gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b across standard academic benchmarks to measure their capabilities in coding, competition math, health, and agentic t”.
- openai.com Official announcement archived
- developers.openai.com Official documentation archived
- arxiv.org Technical paper archived
- huggingface.co Model card archived
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GPT-OSS family
- gpt-oss-120b August 5, 2025
- gpt-oss-20b August 5, 2025
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