# OpenAI Open-Sources Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Starting with DQN

OpenAI has announced the launch of OpenAI Baselines, a new open-source project that makes high-quality reinforcement learning algorithms available to the public. The initiative kicks off with the release of DQN (Deep Q-Network) and three of its variants.

**What's New**

OpenAI Baselines represents the company's internal work to reproduce important reinforcement learning algorithms with performance that matches published research results. Rather than releasing everything at once, OpenAI plans to roll out additional algorithms over the coming months.

**Why It Matters**

Reinforcement learning is a critical area of AI research where systems learn through trial and error, similar to how humans learn. However, reproducing published results has been notoriously difficult in this field due to implementation details that often aren't fully documented in papers.

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