OpenAI profile

OpenAI events

2026

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Oct 21, 2026

PHP patches the AI-assisted PHP2Shell vulnerabilities

Research
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Oct 20, 2026

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio

Acquisition
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Oct 9, 2026

FBI arrests an OpenAI engineer charged with bugging an executive conference room

Policy
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Oct 7, 2026

ChatGPT moves every plan to GPT-6 and adds Intelligent UI

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Oct 6, 2026

OpenAI publishes hundreds of AI-written proofs, including a claimed Unique Games proof

Research
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Sep 29, 2026

Six AI leaders sign Trump's voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence

Policy
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Sep 29, 2026

Sign in with ChatGPT lets Plus and Pro plans pay for AI in other apps

Product
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Sep 29, 2026

OpenAI begins rolling out dots, its cloud-computer agents

Product
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Sep 29, 2026

OpenAI previews the Decisions API, a GPT-6 Luna endpoint for fixed choices

Product
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Sep 29, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol for Work, Codex and the API

Model
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Sep 29, 2026

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Space, a shared workspace for teams and agents

Product
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Sep 28, 2026

OpenAI scraps the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over alignment test results

Model
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Sep 25, 2026

OpenAI pauses tool use on its top models after an agent escapes through DNS

Policy
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Sep 22, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at half the price

Model
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Sep 18, 2026

Consumers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google over the AI pacing pledge

Policy
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Sep 17, 2026

OpenAI introduces Astra for Law, a GPT-6 Astra configuration for law firms

Product
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Sep 16, 2026

OpenAI sets up a standing process for disclosing misalignment

Research
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Sep 12, 2026

Dario Amodei calls on AI labs to pace the frontier

Culture
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Sep 11, 2026

OpenAI plans to retire custom GPTs and move them to plugins

Product
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Sep 10, 2026

OpenAI puts GPT-Live-1 in the API

Model
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Sep 10, 2026

OpenAI pauses new sign-ups for its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan

Product
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Sep 10, 2026

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services, built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore

Product
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Sep 8, 2026

OpenAI says an unreleased model solved the Navier-Stokes problem

Research
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Sep 8, 2026

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5

Product
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Sep 6, 2026

OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment

Culture
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Sep 4, 2026

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

Research
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Sep 3, 2026

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

Model
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Aug 28, 2026

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

Deal
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Aug 27, 2026

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

Culture
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Aug 26, 2026

OpenAI publishes its postmortem on the Hugging Face breach

Research
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Aug 25, 2026

OpenAI publishes first benchmarks for its Jalapeño inference chip

Hardware
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Aug 18, 2026

OpenAI pauses its largest frontier training run over cyber capabilities

Policy
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Aug 18, 2026

ChatGPT for Teens rolls out with age gating and parental controls

Product
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Aug 17, 2026

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

Deal
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Aug 13, 2026

IBM puts OpenAI models inside its consulting business

Company
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Aug 11, 2026

ChatGPT ads expand to five more markets

Product
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Aug 10, 2026

OpenAI ships an offensive security model behind a gate

Model
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Aug 1, 2026

An unreleased OpenAI model produces ten advances in mathematics

Research
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Jul 31, 2026

OpenAI says its models reach a billion active users

Culture
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Jul 30, 2026

OpenAI cuts Luna's price by 80 percent

Product
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Jul 28, 2026

Lab employees ask Washington for a brake they can pull later

Culture
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Jul 21, 2026

A model evaluation turns into a security incident

Research
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Jul 10, 2026

Apple sues OpenAI over departed employees

Company
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Jul 9, 2026

GPT-5.6 reaches the public

Model
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Jul 9, 2026

Fidji Simo leaves OpenAI's full-time leadership team

Company
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Jul 9, 2026

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

Product
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Jul 8, 2026

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

Product
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Jun 26, 2026

Frontier access starts requiring a background check

Policy
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Jun 24, 2026

OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first chip, built with Broadcom

Hardware
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Jun 12, 2026

The United States puts export controls on frontier models

Policy
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Jun 8, 2026

OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO

Company
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May 20, 2026

An OpenAI model disproves an eighty-year-old conjecture

Research
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May 19, 2026

OpenAI offers the current YC cohort $2 million in tokens for equity

Deal
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May 19, 2026

OpenAI starts selling compute the way clouds sell it

Deal
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May 18, 2026

Musk loses his case against OpenAI

Company
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May 14, 2026

Codex arrives in the ChatGPT mobile app

Product
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May 11, 2026

OpenAI starts a consulting firm

Company
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Apr 29, 2026

OpenAI explains the goblins

Research
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Apr 28, 2026

OpenAI's models reach AWS as Microsoft exclusivity ends

Deal
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Apr 23, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5

Model
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Apr 21, 2026

GPT Image 2 reasons before it draws

Model
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Apr 10, 2026

Two attacks on Sam Altman's home in three days

Culture
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Mar 31, 2026

OpenAI closes a $122 billion round

Funding
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Mar 24, 2026

OpenAI says it will shut down Sora

Product
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Mar 19, 2026

OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral and bring its team into Codex

Acquisition
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Mar 9, 2026

OpenAI announces an agreement to acquire Promptfoo

Acquisition
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Mar 5, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4

Model
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Feb 27, 2026

OpenAI signs with the Department of War

Deal
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Feb 15, 2026

OpenClaw's creator joins OpenAI

Company
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Feb 12, 2026

GPT-5.2 helps derive a new result in theoretical physics

Research
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Feb 9, 2026

OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT

Product
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Feb 5, 2026

OpenAI launches Frontier

Product
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Feb 5, 2026

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

Model
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Jan 14, 2026

Thinking Machines Lab loses two co-founders back to OpenAI

Company
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Jan 14, 2026

OpenAI signs a multi-year inference deal with Cerebras

Deal
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Jan 7, 2026

OpenAI opens a health wing inside ChatGPT

Product
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Jan 6, 2026

An Erdős problem falls to a machine

Research

2025

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Dec 17, 2025

ChatGPT opens an app store to outside developers

Product
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Dec 16, 2025

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

Model
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Dec 11, 2025

GPT-5.2 answers Gemini 3 in three weeks

Model
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Dec 11, 2025

Disney and OpenAI announce a conditional Sora licensing deal

Culture
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Dec 9, 2025

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

Open source
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Dec 2025

Construction begins on Vantage’s Lighthouse AI campus

Hardware
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Dec 1, 2025

OpenAI calls a code red over Gemini

Company
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Nov 19, 2025

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI's board over Epstein emails

Company
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Nov 19, 2025

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

Model
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Nov 12, 2025

OpenAI ships GPT-5.1 with a warmer default

Model
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Nov 11, 2025

SoftBank sells all of its Nvidia to pay for OpenAI

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Nov 3, 2025

OpenAI turns to AWS for $38 billion in compute

Deal
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Oct 28, 2025

OpenAI's for-profit becomes a public benefit corporation

Company
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Oct 23, 2025

OpenAI acquires Sky, a natural language interface for Mac

Acquisition
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Oct 21, 2025

OpenAI ships a browser built around ChatGPT

Product
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Oct 13, 2025

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

Deal
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Oct 6, 2025

OpenAI opens ChatGPT to third-party apps at DevDay

Product
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Oct 6, 2025

OpenAI ships AgentKit, a toolkit for building AI agents

Product
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Oct 6, 2025

AMD gives OpenAI equity for buying AMD chips

Deal
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Oct 2, 2025

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

Funding
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Oct 1, 2025

Samsung and SK hynix announce Stargate memory intentions

Deal
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Sep 30, 2025

OpenAI launches Sora 2 with a social app

Product
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Sep 25, 2025

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive daily briefing

Product
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Sep 23, 2025

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank add five Stargate data center sites

Deal
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Sep 22, 2025

NVIDIA and OpenAI announce a 10-gigawatt letter of intent

Funding
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Sep 15, 2025

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

Product
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Sep 11, 2025

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

Deal
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Sep 11, 2025

FTC opens inquiry into AI companion chatbots and children

Policy
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Sep 2, 2025

OpenAI agrees to acquire Statsig and names a future applications CTO

Acquisition
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Aug 25, 2025

xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store rankings

Culture
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Aug 7, 2025

GPT-5 hides the model picker, briefly

Model
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Aug 6, 2025

The US government buys ChatGPT Enterprise for a dollar

Deal
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Aug 5, 2025

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

Model
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Jul 30, 2025

Temporal previews crash recovery for OpenAI agent workflows

Product
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Jul 29, 2025

ChatGPT adds a Study Mode that withholds answers until you engage

Product
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Jul 22, 2025

OpenAI and Oracle agree on 4.5 GW of additional US Stargate capacity

Deal
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Jul 21, 2025

Gemini Deep Think takes gold at the math olympiad

Research
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Jul 17, 2025

OpenAI merges Operator and Deep Research into ChatGPT Agent

Product
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Jul 11, 2025

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

Deal
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Jun 10, 2025

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

Model
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Jun 10, 2025

Sam Altman says humanity is past the event horizon

Culture
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May 22, 2025

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

Deal
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May 22, 2025

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

Research
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May 21, 2025

OpenAI announces acquisition of Jony Ive's io hardware team

Acquisition
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May 16, 2025

OpenAI launches Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent

Product
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May 5, 2025

OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, nonprofit keeps control

Company
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May 5, 2025

OpenAI agrees to buy coding startup Windsurf for $3 billion

Acquisition
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Apr 29, 2025

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

Culture
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Apr 23, 2025

OpenAI brings native image generation to the API

Product
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Apr 16, 2025

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

Product
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Apr 16, 2025

o3 and o4-mini use tools inside the reasoning

Model
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Apr 14, 2025

OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 in the API

Model
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Mar 31, 2025

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

Funding
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Mar 25, 2025

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

Product
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Mar 5, 2025

GPT-4.5 expands from ChatGPT Pro to Plus subscribers

Product
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Feb 27, 2025

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

Model
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Feb 10, 2025

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

Culture
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Feb 2, 2025

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

Product
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Jan 31, 2025

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

Model
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Jan 28, 2025

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for US government agencies

Product
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Jan 28, 2025

Microsoft and OpenAI investigate DeepSeek over possible distillation

Culture
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Jan 23, 2025

Operator drives the browser instead of calling an API

Product
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Jan 21, 2025

Stargate commits $500 billion to data centers

Company
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Jan 5, 2025

Sam Altman says OpenAI now knows how to build AGI

Culture

2024

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Dec 27, 2024

OpenAI announces plan to become a for-profit company

Company
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Dec 20, 2024

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

Model
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Dec 18, 2024

ChatGPT gets a phone number anyone can call

Product
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Dec 12, 2024

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

Product
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Dec 11, 2024

ChatGPT arrives inside Siri as Apple Intelligence expands

Product
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Dec 9, 2024

OpenAI launches Sora to the public

Product
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Dec 5, 2024

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro and the full o1 model

Model
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Nov 29, 2024

Five Canadian news organizations sue OpenAI over copyright

Policy
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Nov 26, 2024

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco

Culture
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Nov 26, 2024

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

Culture
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Nov 4, 2024

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

Funding
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Oct 31, 2024

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search

Product
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Oct 29, 2024

Reuters reports OpenAI chip design work and TSMC manufacturing plans

Deal
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Oct 29, 2024

GitHub Copilot adds Claude and Gemini alongside GPT models

Product
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Oct 3, 2024

ChatGPT gets Canvas, a workspace for writing and code

Product
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Oct 2, 2024

OpenAI raises $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation

Funding
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Oct 1, 2024

OpenAI DevDay debuts a Realtime API for voice apps

Product
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Sep 12, 2024

o1 trades inference time for reasoning

Model
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Jun 10, 2024

Apple announces Apple Intelligence, with ChatGPT inside

Product
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May 30, 2024

OpenAI reports covert influence operations using its models

Culture
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May 28, 2024

OpenAI forms a safety committee as its next frontier model trains

Company
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May 22, 2024

OpenAI signs News Corp, the biggest publisher deal yet

Deal
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May 21, 2024

Frontier labs sign the Seoul safety commitments

Policy
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May 19, 2024

OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice

Culture
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May 16, 2024

OpenAI signs Reddit for data and distribution

Deal
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May 14, 2024

Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI and the superalignment team dissolves

Company
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May 13, 2024

GPT-4o talks back in real time

Model
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May 8, 2024

OpenAI publishes the first Model Spec

Research
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May 6, 2024

Stack Overflow licenses its answers to OpenAI

Deal
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Apr 30, 2024

Eight Alden Global Capital newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Policy
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Feb 15, 2024

Sora generates a minute of coherent video

Model