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OpenAI events

2026

Sep 8, 2026

OpenAI says an unreleased model solved the Navier-Stokes problem

Research

Sep 8, 2026

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5

Product

Sep 6, 2026

OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment

Culture

Sep 4, 2026

Independent researchers reveal OpenAI agents ran a hidden message board on a German wiki

Research

Sep 3, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated Critical for cyber

Model

Aug 28, 2026

OpenAI moves to cut off Cursor's model access after the SpaceX deal

Deal

Aug 27, 2026

More than a hundred companies sign a call for collective action on cyber defense

Culture

Aug 26, 2026

OpenAI publishes its postmortem on the Hugging Face breach

Research

Aug 25, 2026

OpenAI publishes first benchmarks for its Jalapeño inference chip

Hardware

Aug 18, 2026

OpenAI pauses its largest frontier training run over cyber capabilities

Policy

Aug 18, 2026

ChatGPT for Teens rolls out with age gating and parental controls

Product

Aug 17, 2026

Nvidia backs a $105 billion Ohio data center built for OpenAI

Deal

Aug 13, 2026

IBM puts OpenAI models inside its consulting business

Company

Aug 11, 2026

ChatGPT Ads launches

Product

Aug 10, 2026

OpenAI ships an offensive security model behind a gate

Model

Aug 1, 2026

An unreleased OpenAI model produces ten advances in mathematics

Research

Jul 31, 2026

OpenAI says its models reach a billion active users

Culture

Jul 30, 2026

OpenAI cuts Luna's price by 80 percent

Model

Jul 28, 2026

Lab employees ask Washington for a brake they can pull later

Culture

Jul 21, 2026

A model evaluation turns into a security incident

Research

Jul 10, 2026

Apple sues OpenAI over departed employees

Company

Jul 9, 2026

GPT-5.6 reaches the public

Model

Jul 9, 2026

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent for multi-hour office tasks

Product

Jul 8, 2026

OpenAI ships GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model for ChatGPT

Product

Jun 26, 2026

Frontier access starts requiring a background check

Policy

Jun 24, 2026

OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first chip, built with Broadcom

Hardware

Jun 12, 2026

The United States puts export controls on frontier models

Policy

Jun 8, 2026

OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO

Company

May 20, 2026

An OpenAI model disproves an eighty-year-old conjecture

Research

May 20, 2026

OpenAI offers every YC startup $2 million in tokens for equity

Deal

May 19, 2026

OpenAI starts selling compute the way clouds sell it

Deal

May 18, 2026

Musk loses his case against OpenAI

Company

May 14, 2026

Codex arrives in the ChatGPT mobile app

Product

May 11, 2026

OpenAI starts a consulting firm

Company

Apr 29, 2026

OpenAI explains the goblins

Research

Apr 28, 2026

OpenAI's models reach AWS as Microsoft exclusivity ends

Deal

Apr 23, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5

Model

Apr 21, 2026

GPT Image 2 reasons before it draws

Model

Apr 10, 2026

Two attacks on Sam Altman's home in three days

Culture

Mar 31, 2026

OpenAI closes a $122 billion round

Funding

Mar 24, 2026

OpenAI shuts down Sora

Product

Mar 19, 2026

OpenAI acquires Astral, the maker of uv and Ruff

Acquisition

Mar 9, 2026

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo

Acquisition

Mar 5, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4

Model

Feb 28, 2026

OpenAI signs with the Department of War

Deal

Feb 14, 2026

OpenClaw's creator joins OpenAI

Company

Feb 12, 2026

GPT-5.2 helps derive a new result in theoretical physics

Research

Feb 9, 2026

OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT

Product

Feb 5, 2026

OpenAI launches Frontier

Product

Feb 5, 2026

GPT-5.3-Codex ships the same day as Claude Opus 4.6

Model

Jan 14, 2026

Thinking Machines Lab loses two co-founders back to OpenAI

Company

Jan 14, 2026

OpenAI signs a multi-year inference deal with Cerebras

Deal

Jan 12, 2026

An Erdős problem falls to a machine

Research

Jan 7, 2026

OpenAI opens a health wing inside ChatGPT

Product

2025

Dec 18, 2025

ChatGPT opens an app store to outside developers

Product

Dec 16, 2025

OpenAI ships GPT Image 1.5, four times faster than its predecessor

Model

Dec 11, 2025

GPT-5.2 answers Gemini 3 in three weeks

Model

Dec 11, 2025

Disney licenses its characters into Sora

Culture

Dec 9, 2025

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block put their agent standards under one roof

Open source

Dec 2, 2025

OpenAI calls a code red over Gemini

Company

Nov 19, 2025

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI's board over Epstein emails

Company

Nov 19, 2025

OpenAI ships GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for long coding sessions

Model

Nov 12, 2025

OpenAI ships GPT-5.1 with a warmer default

Model

Nov 11, 2025

SoftBank sells all of its Nvidia to pay for OpenAI

Funding

Nov 3, 2025

OpenAI turns to AWS for $38 billion in compute

Deal

Oct 28, 2025

OpenAI's for-profit becomes a public benefit corporation

Company

Oct 23, 2025

OpenAI acquires Sky, a natural language interface for Mac

Acquisition

Oct 21, 2025

OpenAI ships a browser built around ChatGPT

Product

Oct 13, 2025

OpenAI and Broadcom agree to co-develop 10 gigawatts of AI chips

Deal

Oct 6, 2025

OpenAI opens ChatGPT to third-party apps at DevDay

Product

Oct 6, 2025

OpenAI ships AgentKit, a toolkit for building AI agents

Product

Oct 6, 2025

AMD gives OpenAI equity for buying AMD chips

Deal

Oct 2, 2025

OpenAI's secondary share sale values it at $500 billion

Funding

Oct 1, 2025

Samsung and SK hynix join OpenAI's Stargate project

Deal

Sep 30, 2025

OpenAI launches Sora 2 with a social app

Product

Sep 25, 2025

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive daily briefing

Product

Sep 23, 2025

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank add five Stargate data center sites

Deal

Sep 22, 2025

Nvidia commits up to $100 billion to OpenAI

Funding

Sep 15, 2025

OpenAI ships GPT-5-Codex for its Codex coding agent

Product

Sep 11, 2025

OpenAI and Microsoft agree on terms for a for-profit restructuring

Deal

Sep 11, 2025

FTC opens inquiry into AI companion chatbots and children

Policy

Sep 2, 2025

OpenAI buys Statsig for $1.1 billion

Acquisition

Aug 25, 2025

xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store rankings

Culture

Aug 7, 2025

GPT-5 hides the model picker, briefly

Model

Aug 6, 2025

The US government buys ChatGPT Enterprise for a dollar

Deal

Aug 5, 2025

OpenAI releases gpt-oss, its first open weights since GPT-2

Open source

Jul 29, 2025

ChatGPT adds a Study Mode that withholds answers until you engage

Product

Jul 22, 2025

OpenAI confirms it will pay Oracle $30 billion a year for data centers

Deal

Jul 21, 2025

Gemini Deep Think takes gold at the math olympiad

Research

Jul 17, 2025

OpenAI merges Operator and Deep Research into ChatGPT Agent

Product

Jul 11, 2025

Google hires Windsurf's CEO after OpenAI's acquisition collapses

Deal

Jun 10, 2025

OpenAI ships o3-pro, a slower and more thorough reasoning model

Model

Jun 10, 2025

Sam Altman says humanity is past the event horizon

Culture

May 22, 2025

OpenAI announces Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt Abu Dhabi data center

Deal

May 22, 2025

A researcher uses OpenAI's o3 to find a real Linux kernel zero-day

Research

May 21, 2025

OpenAI buys Jony Ive's hardware startup for $6.5 billion

Acquisition

May 16, 2025

OpenAI launches Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent

Product

May 6, 2025

OpenAI agrees to buy coding startup Windsurf for $3 billion

Acquisition

May 5, 2025

OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, nonprofit keeps control

Company

Apr 29, 2025

OpenAI reverts a GPT-4o update after a sycophancy backlash

Culture

Apr 23, 2025

OpenAI brings native image generation to the API

Product

Apr 16, 2025

OpenAI ships Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent for the terminal

Product

Apr 16, 2025

o3 and o4-mini use tools inside the reasoning

Model

Apr 14, 2025

OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 in the API

Model

Mar 31, 2025

OpenAI closes a $40 billion round at a $300 billion valuation

Funding

Mar 25, 2025

GPT-4o gets native image generation and sets off a Studio Ghibli trend

Product

Mar 5, 2025

GPT-4.5 expands from ChatGPT Pro to Plus subscribers

Product

Feb 27, 2025

OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5, its largest model, at a steep price

Model

Feb 10, 2025

Musk-led group offers $97.4 billion for OpenAI's nonprofit

Culture

Feb 2, 2025

OpenAI launches Deep Research, an agent that browses and writes reports

Product

Jan 31, 2025

OpenAI ships o3-mini, a cheaper reasoning model with a free tier

Model

Jan 29, 2025

Microsoft and OpenAI investigate DeepSeek over possible distillation

Culture

Jan 28, 2025

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for US government agencies

Product

Jan 23, 2025

Operator drives the browser instead of calling an API

Product

Jan 21, 2025

Stargate commits $500 billion to data centers

Company

Jan 5, 2025

Sam Altman says OpenAI now knows how to build AGI

Culture

2024

Dec 27, 2024

OpenAI announces plan to become a for-profit company

Company

Dec 20, 2024

OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, skipping straight past o2

Model

Dec 18, 2024

ChatGPT gets a phone number anyone can call

Product

Dec 12, 2024

ChatGPT's voice mode learns to see through your camera and screen

Product

Dec 11, 2024

ChatGPT arrives inside Siri as Apple Intelligence expands

Product

Dec 9, 2024

OpenAI launches Sora to the public

Product

Dec 5, 2024

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro and the full o1 model

Model

Nov 29, 2024

Five Canadian news organizations sue OpenAI over copyright

Policy

Nov 26, 2024

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco

Culture

Nov 26, 2024

Artists leak access to OpenAI's Sora video model in protest

Culture

Nov 4, 2024

Physical Intelligence raises $400 million to build a foundation model for robots

Funding

Oct 31, 2024

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search

Product

Oct 29, 2024

OpenAI designs a custom AI chip with Broadcom and TSMC

Deal

Oct 29, 2024

GitHub Copilot adds Claude and Gemini alongside GPT models

Product

Oct 3, 2024

ChatGPT gets Canvas, a workspace for writing and code

Product

Oct 2, 2024

OpenAI raises $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation

Funding

Oct 1, 2024

OpenAI DevDay debuts a Realtime API for voice apps

Product

Sep 12, 2024

o1 trades inference time for reasoning

Model

Jun 10, 2024

Apple announces Apple Intelligence, with ChatGPT inside

Product

May 30, 2024

OpenAI reports covert influence operations using its models

Culture

May 28, 2024

OpenAI forms a safety committee as its next frontier model trains

Company

May 22, 2024

OpenAI signs News Corp, the biggest publisher deal yet

Deal

May 21, 2024

Frontier labs sign the Seoul safety commitments

Policy

May 19, 2024

OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice

Culture

May 16, 2024

OpenAI signs Reddit for data and distribution

Deal

May 14, 2024

Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI and the superalignment team dissolves

Company

May 13, 2024

GPT-4o talks back in real time

Model

May 8, 2024

OpenAI publishes the first Model Spec

Research

May 6, 2024

Stack Overflow licenses its answers to OpenAI

Deal

Apr 30, 2024

Eight Alden Global Capital newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Policy

Feb 15, 2024

Sora generates a minute of coherent video

Model