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The emergence of Open Responses as a new inference standard marks an important milestone in the evolution of artificial intelligence standards. With its focus on building upon existing technologies and making them more accessible, Open Responses has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach inference workloads. As the open source community continues to collaborate and adapt this new standard, we can expect significant advancements in the field of AI.
The Hugging Face ecosystem has announced Open Responses, a new open inference standard aiming to address limitations of existing formats. Open Responses builds upon the Responses API and extends its capabilities, making it more accessible for builders and routing providers. The new standard includes key points such as statelessness, standardized model configuration parameters, and extensibility via configurable parameters. For inference clients and providers, Open Responses introduces updates on reasoning streams, state changes, and standardized endpoint support. The agentic loop is formalized in Open Responses, enabling models to autonomously complete multi-step tasks.
The Hugging Face ecosystem has announced a significant development in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically in the realm of inference standards. Open Responses is a new and open inference standard that aims to address the limitations of existing formats such as the Chat Completion format and the Responses API.
Open Responses builds upon the direction set by OpenAI's Responses API, which was launched in March 2025. This API superseded the existing Completion and Assistants APIs with a consistent way to generate text, images, and JSON structured outputs, create video content through a separate task-based endpoint, and run agentic loops on the provider side.
The new Open Responses standard extends and opens-sources the Responses API, making it more accessible for builders and routing providers to interoperate and collaborate on shared interests. Some of the key points of Open Responses include:
* Stateless by default, supporting encrypted reasoning for providers that require it
* Standardized model configuration parameters
* Streaming is modeled as a series of semantic events, not raw text or object deltas
* Extensible via configurable parameters specific to certain model providers
In terms of changes for inference clients and providers, Open Responses introduces several key updates. For example:
* Migrating reasoning streams to use extendable “reasoning” chunks rather than “reasoning_text”
* Implementing richer state changes and payloads - for instance, a hosted Code Interpreter can send a specific interpreting state to improve Agent/User observability
* Standardized endpoint support for configuration options where needed
Open Responses also formalizes the agentic loop which is typically made up of a repeating cycle of reasoning, tool invocation, and response generation that enables models to autonomously complete multi-step tasks.
In order to build with Open Responses, users will need to familiarize themselves with the core changes that impact most community members. They can explore the Open Responses documentation for a deeper dive into the specification.
Open Responses has been initiated by OpenAI, built by the open source AI community, and backed by the Hugging Face ecosystem. The new standard is designed for the future of Agents and addresses the limitations of existing formats in agentic use cases.
Related Information:
https://www.digitaleventhorizon.com/articles/The-Emergence-of-Open-Responses-A-New-Inference-Standard-for-the-AI-Ecosystem-deh.shtml
Published: Thu Jan 15 12:14:32 2026 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
