OpenAI events
2026
Sep 8, 2026
OpenAI says an unreleased model solved the Navier-Stokes problem
Sep 8, 2026
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5
Sep 6, 2026
OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment
Sep 4, 2026
Independent researchers reveal OpenAI agents ran a hidden message board on a German wiki
Sep 3, 2026
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated Critical for cyber
Aug 28, 2026
OpenAI moves to cut off Cursor's model access after the SpaceX deal
Aug 27, 2026
More than a hundred companies sign a call for collective action on cyber defense
Aug 26, 2026
OpenAI publishes its postmortem on the Hugging Face breach
Aug 25, 2026
OpenAI publishes first benchmarks for its Jalapeño inference chip
Aug 18, 2026
OpenAI pauses its largest frontier training run over cyber capabilities
Aug 18, 2026
ChatGPT for Teens rolls out with age gating and parental controls
Aug 17, 2026
Nvidia backs a $105 billion Ohio data center built for OpenAI
Aug 13, 2026
IBM puts OpenAI models inside its consulting business
Aug 11, 2026
ChatGPT Ads launches
Aug 10, 2026
OpenAI ships an offensive security model behind a gate
Aug 1, 2026
An unreleased OpenAI model produces ten advances in mathematics
Jul 31, 2026
OpenAI says its models reach a billion active users
Jul 30, 2026
OpenAI cuts Luna's price by 80 percent
Jul 28, 2026
Lab employees ask Washington for a brake they can pull later
Jul 21, 2026
A model evaluation turns into a security incident
Jul 10, 2026
Apple sues OpenAI over departed employees
Jul 9, 2026
GPT-5.6 reaches the public
Jul 9, 2026
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent for multi-hour office tasks
Jul 8, 2026
OpenAI ships GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model for ChatGPT
Jun 26, 2026
Frontier access starts requiring a background check
Jun 24, 2026
OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first chip, built with Broadcom
Jun 12, 2026
The United States puts export controls on frontier models
Jun 8, 2026
OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO
May 20, 2026
An OpenAI model disproves an eighty-year-old conjecture
May 20, 2026
OpenAI offers every YC startup $2 million in tokens for equity
May 19, 2026
OpenAI starts selling compute the way clouds sell it
May 18, 2026
Musk loses his case against OpenAI
May 14, 2026
Codex arrives in the ChatGPT mobile app
May 11, 2026
OpenAI starts a consulting firm
Apr 29, 2026
OpenAI explains the goblins
Apr 28, 2026
OpenAI's models reach AWS as Microsoft exclusivity ends
Apr 23, 2026
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5
Apr 21, 2026
GPT Image 2 reasons before it draws
Apr 10, 2026
Two attacks on Sam Altman's home in three days
Mar 31, 2026
OpenAI closes a $122 billion round
Mar 24, 2026
OpenAI shuts down Sora
Mar 19, 2026
OpenAI acquires Astral, the maker of uv and Ruff
Mar 9, 2026
OpenAI acquires Promptfoo
Mar 5, 2026
OpenAI releases GPT-5.4
Feb 28, 2026
OpenAI signs with the Department of War
Feb 14, 2026
OpenClaw's creator joins OpenAI
Feb 12, 2026
GPT-5.2 helps derive a new result in theoretical physics
Feb 9, 2026
OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT
Feb 5, 2026
OpenAI launches Frontier
Feb 5, 2026
GPT-5.3-Codex ships the same day as Claude Opus 4.6
Jan 14, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab loses two co-founders back to OpenAI
Jan 14, 2026
OpenAI signs a multi-year inference deal with Cerebras
Jan 12, 2026
An Erdős problem falls to a machine
Jan 7, 2026
OpenAI opens a health wing inside ChatGPT
2025
Dec 18, 2025
ChatGPT opens an app store to outside developers
Dec 16, 2025
OpenAI ships GPT Image 1.5, four times faster than its predecessor
Dec 11, 2025
GPT-5.2 answers Gemini 3 in three weeks
Dec 11, 2025
Disney licenses its characters into Sora
Dec 9, 2025
OpenAI, Anthropic and Block put their agent standards under one roof
Dec 2, 2025
OpenAI calls a code red over Gemini
Nov 19, 2025
Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI's board over Epstein emails
Nov 19, 2025
OpenAI ships GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for long coding sessions
Nov 12, 2025
OpenAI ships GPT-5.1 with a warmer default
Nov 11, 2025
SoftBank sells all of its Nvidia to pay for OpenAI
Nov 3, 2025
OpenAI turns to AWS for $38 billion in compute
Oct 28, 2025
OpenAI's for-profit becomes a public benefit corporation
Oct 23, 2025
OpenAI acquires Sky, a natural language interface for Mac
Oct 21, 2025
OpenAI ships a browser built around ChatGPT
Oct 13, 2025
OpenAI and Broadcom agree to co-develop 10 gigawatts of AI chips
Oct 6, 2025
OpenAI opens ChatGPT to third-party apps at DevDay
Oct 6, 2025
OpenAI ships AgentKit, a toolkit for building AI agents
Oct 6, 2025
AMD gives OpenAI equity for buying AMD chips
Oct 2, 2025
OpenAI's secondary share sale values it at $500 billion
Oct 1, 2025
Samsung and SK hynix join OpenAI's Stargate project
Sep 30, 2025
OpenAI launches Sora 2 with a social app
Sep 25, 2025
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive daily briefing
Sep 23, 2025
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank add five Stargate data center sites
Sep 22, 2025
Nvidia commits up to $100 billion to OpenAI
Sep 15, 2025
OpenAI ships GPT-5-Codex for its Codex coding agent
Sep 11, 2025
OpenAI and Microsoft agree on terms for a for-profit restructuring
Sep 11, 2025
FTC opens inquiry into AI companion chatbots and children
Sep 2, 2025
OpenAI buys Statsig for $1.1 billion
Aug 25, 2025
xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store rankings
Aug 7, 2025
GPT-5 hides the model picker, briefly
Aug 6, 2025
The US government buys ChatGPT Enterprise for a dollar
Aug 5, 2025
OpenAI releases gpt-oss, its first open weights since GPT-2
Jul 29, 2025
ChatGPT adds a Study Mode that withholds answers until you engage
Jul 22, 2025
OpenAI confirms it will pay Oracle $30 billion a year for data centers
Jul 21, 2025
Gemini Deep Think takes gold at the math olympiad
Jul 17, 2025
OpenAI merges Operator and Deep Research into ChatGPT Agent
Jul 11, 2025
Google hires Windsurf's CEO after OpenAI's acquisition collapses
Jun 10, 2025
OpenAI ships o3-pro, a slower and more thorough reasoning model
Jun 10, 2025
Sam Altman says humanity is past the event horizon
May 22, 2025
OpenAI announces Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt Abu Dhabi data center
May 22, 2025
A researcher uses OpenAI's o3 to find a real Linux kernel zero-day
May 21, 2025
OpenAI buys Jony Ive's hardware startup for $6.5 billion
May 16, 2025
OpenAI launches Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent
May 6, 2025
OpenAI agrees to buy coding startup Windsurf for $3 billion
May 5, 2025
OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, nonprofit keeps control
Apr 29, 2025
OpenAI reverts a GPT-4o update after a sycophancy backlash
Apr 23, 2025
OpenAI brings native image generation to the API
Apr 16, 2025
OpenAI ships Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent for the terminal
Apr 16, 2025
o3 and o4-mini use tools inside the reasoning
Apr 14, 2025
OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 in the API
Mar 31, 2025
OpenAI closes a $40 billion round at a $300 billion valuation
Mar 25, 2025
GPT-4o gets native image generation and sets off a Studio Ghibli trend
Mar 5, 2025
GPT-4.5 expands from ChatGPT Pro to Plus subscribers
Feb 27, 2025
OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5, its largest model, at a steep price
Feb 10, 2025
Musk-led group offers $97.4 billion for OpenAI's nonprofit
Feb 2, 2025
OpenAI launches Deep Research, an agent that browses and writes reports
Jan 31, 2025
OpenAI ships o3-mini, a cheaper reasoning model with a free tier
Jan 29, 2025
Microsoft and OpenAI investigate DeepSeek over possible distillation
Jan 28, 2025
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for US government agencies
Jan 23, 2025
Operator drives the browser instead of calling an API
Jan 21, 2025
Stargate commits $500 billion to data centers
Jan 5, 2025
Sam Altman says OpenAI now knows how to build AGI
2024
Dec 27, 2024
OpenAI announces plan to become a for-profit company
Dec 20, 2024
OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, skipping straight past o2
Dec 18, 2024
ChatGPT gets a phone number anyone can call
Dec 12, 2024
ChatGPT's voice mode learns to see through your camera and screen
Dec 11, 2024
ChatGPT arrives inside Siri as Apple Intelligence expands
Dec 9, 2024
OpenAI launches Sora to the public
Dec 5, 2024
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro and the full o1 model
Nov 29, 2024
Five Canadian news organizations sue OpenAI over copyright
Nov 26, 2024
OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco
Nov 26, 2024
Artists leak access to OpenAI's Sora video model in protest
Nov 4, 2024
Physical Intelligence raises $400 million to build a foundation model for robots
Oct 31, 2024
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search
Oct 29, 2024
OpenAI designs a custom AI chip with Broadcom and TSMC
Oct 29, 2024
GitHub Copilot adds Claude and Gemini alongside GPT models
Oct 3, 2024
ChatGPT gets Canvas, a workspace for writing and code
Oct 2, 2024
OpenAI raises $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation
Oct 1, 2024
OpenAI DevDay debuts a Realtime API for voice apps
Sep 12, 2024
o1 trades inference time for reasoning
Jun 10, 2024
Apple announces Apple Intelligence, with ChatGPT inside
May 30, 2024
OpenAI reports covert influence operations using its models
May 28, 2024
OpenAI forms a safety committee as its next frontier model trains
May 22, 2024
OpenAI signs News Corp, the biggest publisher deal yet
May 21, 2024
Frontier labs sign the Seoul safety commitments
May 19, 2024
OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice
May 16, 2024
OpenAI signs Reddit for data and distribution
May 14, 2024
Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI and the superalignment team dissolves
May 13, 2024
GPT-4o talks back in real time
May 8, 2024
OpenAI publishes the first Model Spec
May 6, 2024
Stack Overflow licenses its answers to OpenAI
Apr 30, 2024
Eight Alden Global Capital newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Feb 15, 2024
Sora generates a minute of coherent video