I've been using the gpt-oss 20b parameter model on my laptop and it works great. Doesn't reject giving legal or medical advice either. Obviously not good enough for coding, but seems like 'useful AI assistant for daily life' is in overshoot.

Somewhere a doctor is happy he found a model that's good enough for coding but he thinks, I'm certainly not dumb enough to use this for medical advice.

That’s great, but not a reason for taxpayers to get involved and be on the hook for massive risky investments.

OpenAI doesn’t need government financial backing for investment. The government has more pressing priorities to address with the money they take from us first.