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How to set up and run OpenAI’s ‘gpt-oss-20b’ open weight model locally on your Mac


This week, OpenAI released its long-awaited open weight model called gpt-oss. Part of the appeal of gpt-oss is that you...

Part of the appeal of gpt-oss is that you can run it locally on your own hardware, including Macs with Apple silicon. By default, the open weight local model lacks a lot of the modern chatbot features that make ChatGPT useful. (AI is a big reason that Apple stopped selling Macs with 8GB RAM not that long ago — with one value exception.)

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