ChatGPT Ads
ChatGPT Ads now available in more than 60 countries after adding Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
OpenAI
Every deployment from OpenAI in The Deploy Log, 139 rows, newest first.
codex rust-v0.156.1
Release 0.156.1 of the codex Rust crate is tagged.
Astra for Law
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index covering more than 230 million URLs and 26 partner-built plugins, passing the Vals AI Legal Research Bench overall correctness check on 54.0% of questions versus 38.7% for GPT-6 Astra with web search alone.
Codex rust-v0.155.0
Codex rust-v0.155.0 added experimental voice conversations with live transcripts, Touch ID verification for MCP requests, and AWS credential export commands for Amazon Bedrock.
Codex rust-v0.155.1
Codex rust-v0.155.1 fixed new local TUI sessions leaving reasoning summaries disabled by default, which had caused request rejection by providers that do not support them.
GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra, rolling out to the OpenAI API and through Microsoft Azure and Amazon Bedrock at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, the same headline price as Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, which shipped the same week. Cache reads are priced separately, and Fast mode costs 2x.
ChatGPT Epic EHR integration
Healthcare organizations can now connect Epic environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, and across 4,363 physician ratings, 99.1% of responses were rated safe across 27 clinical use cases.
GPT-5.6 in Kiro
The GPT-5.6 model family, including Sol, Terra, and Luna, is now available in Kiro, and testing found that on Terminal-Bench 2.1, GPT-5.6 Terra completed successful tasks in Kiro at roughly 82% cost reduction.
ChatGPT for Teachers
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 additional school systems, bringing it to over 100,000 more educators and staff.
ChatGPT for Teens
ChatGPT for Teens places users estimated under 18 or stating age 13 to 17 into a protected experience with Study Mode, responsible homework reminders, quizzes, learning visualizations, Study Hours, break reminders, and parent controls including Quiet Hours and safety notifications.
Replit Free Mode
Replit introduces Free Mode powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, letting users get answers, suggestions, feedback, and analysis in seconds without consuming usage, with routing to GPT-5.6 Sol for tasks requiring more advanced reasoning.
ChatGPT Ads Europe
ChatGPT Ads expands to 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Austria. Ads show only on Free and Go plans; Plus, Pro, and Enterprise remain ad-free.
ChatGPT Business Premium seats
Premium seats are now available on ChatGPT Business at $125 per user per month, or $100 per user per month billed annually, with 5x more usage than Standard seats and no five-hour usage limit.
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
GPT-5.6 Sol on Ultrafast mode runs up to 14x faster than Standard processing and generates up to 750 output tokens per second, launching first in the OpenAI API and powered by Cerebras.
GPT-5.6-Cyber
GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95.0% of advanced cybersecurity requests compared with 1.5% for GPT-5.6 Sol, and is available through Daybreak Red access.
ChatGPT ads
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT ads pilot to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, with ads on Free and Go tiers; Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education remain ad-free.
Daybreak on AWS
OpenAI made Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red available through Amazon Bedrock, giving defenders access to GPT-5.6 Sol and purpose-trained cyber models in AWS environments.
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT now gives more focused answers and makes factual errors 68% less common than GPT-5.5 Instant on financial, medical, and legal prompts. A new slider controls how much thought each response gets.
ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
OpenAI is giving 100,000 researchers at selected academic institutions free access to frontier models including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, starting with 10,000 researchers this summer and expanding through 2027, with access already available at the Institute for Advanced Study and École normale supérieure.
GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra
GPT-5.6 Luna now costs 80% less and GPT-5.6 Terra 20% less, with API pricing at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens for Luna, and $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens for Terra starting July 30.
ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI is launching the ChatGPT for small business program with virtual training, in-person AI academies, and new guides, after 78% of participants built a functional AI workflow in a single day at last year's Small Business AI Jams.
Health in ChatGPT
Health in ChatGPT rolls out to U.S. users, letting them connect Apple Health and medical records. GPT-5.6 Sol outperforms GPT-5.5 on HealthBench Professional, and 70% of health conversations happened outside the dedicated experience.
ChatGPT Work
ChatGPT Work launches on web and mobile for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu plans, with Plus and Business following over the next few days. It is powered by GPT-5.6 and can gather information across apps, create sheets, slides, docs, and web apps, and stay with projects for hours.
GPT-5.6
GPT-5.6 family launches in general availability with Sol, Terra, and Luna. Sol scores 53.6 on Agents' Last Exam, 80 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, 92.2% on BrowseComp, and 62.6% on OSWorld 2.0. Terra and Luna outperform Fable 5 at around one-sixteenth the cost.
GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
GPT-5.6 becomes the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork, with Microsoft accessing the models directly through the OpenAI API.
GPT-Live
GPT-Live launches with GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini rolling out to ChatGPT users globally on iOS, Android, and ChatGPT.com. It uses a full-duplex architecture that listens and speaks at the same time, and delegates deeper work to GPT-5.5 in the background.
Jalapeño inference chip
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor, co-developed from initial design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, with engineering samples running ML workloads in the lab at production target frequency and power, including GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark.
Samsung ChatGPT Codex deployment
Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in Korea and all Device eXperience division employees worldwide, one of OpenAI's largest enterprise deployments to date. Codex weekly active users in Korea have grown nearly 800% since February 1, 2026, and more than 5 million people now use Codex every week.
ChatGPT Enterprise spend controls
Credit usage analytics and updated spend controls are available today in the Global Admin Console. Admins can track usage trends, identify top users, break down credit spend by user, product, and model, set default workspace limits, configure group limits, and create individual overrides.
Deployment Simulation
OpenAI's Deployment Simulation replays previous conversations with candidate models and achieved a median multiplicative error of 1.5x in predicting deployment-time undesired behavior rates across GPT-5-series Thinking deployments.
LifeSciBench
LifeSciBench includes 750 expert-authored tasks spanning seven workflows and seven biological domains, with 19,020 rubric criteria and 453 expert reviewers.
OpenAI Partner Network
OpenAI is investing $150 million in a partner program and aims to train 300,000 certified consultants by the end of 2026.
Rare disease reanalysis
OpenAI o3 Deep Research reanalyzed 376 previously unsolved rare disease cases and surfaced leads that led to 18 diagnoses, an additional diagnostic yield of 4.8%.
BBVA ChatGPT Enterprise
BBVA now has more than 100,000 employees using ChatGPT Enterprise globally, with 70%+ weekly active usage, around 3 hours saved per employee per week, and up to 80% efficiency gains in selected workflows.
Economic Research Exchange
OpenAI launched the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange, a platform for structured project-based collaborations on the economic effects of AI, with applications open until July 5, 2026.
LSEG OpenAI deployment
LSEG deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI APIs across the organization, reducing product release cycles from 3-6 months to 2 weeks and accelerating customer delivery timelines to about 4 weeks from request to production.
Preply Lesson Insights
Preply launched Lesson Insights, an OpenAI API-powered experience that generates tailored feedback across grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation after each 1:1 lesson, with 75% of English-language learners actively using it and a 4.7/5 satisfaction rating from more than 300k ratings.
ChatGPT Dreaming memory
OpenAI began rolling out a new dreaming-based memory synthesis system for ChatGPT, available to Plus and Pro users in the US today, with additional countries and Free and Go users over the coming weeks.
GPT-Rosalind
GPT-Rosalind came out of research preview and is now available globally to eligible organizations through OpenAI's trusted-access program, with published pricing taking effect on October 5, 2026.
OpenAI on AWS
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are generally available on AWS through Amazon Bedrock, in both Commercial and GovCloud regions. Codex is used by more than 5 million people every week.
Rosalind Biodefense
OpenAI is launching Rosalind Biodefense to sponsor access to GPT-Rosalind for trusted developers, and extending trusted access to select U.S. government and allied partners.
Codex on Dell
OpenAI and Dell Technologies partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premises environments, with more than 4 million developers now using Codex every week.
GPT-5.5 on Databricks
Databricks is making GPT-5.5 available through AI Unity Gateway after the model became the first to surpass 50% accuracy on OfficeQA Pro and reduced errors by 46% compared to GPT-5.4.
OpenAI Deployment Company
OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Deployment Company with more than $4 billion of initial investment and has agreed to acquire Tomoro, bringing approximately 150 experienced Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Specialists from day one.
ChatGPT personal finance
ChatGPT personal finance preview lets Pro users in the U.S. connect financial accounts via Plaid, with support for 12,000+ institutions. It provides a dashboard and grounded answers, with Intuit support coming soon.
Codex mobile app
Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app in preview, and more than 4 million people use Codex every week.
GPT-5.5 Instant
GPT-5.5 Instant replaces GPT-5.3 Instant as the default model for all ChatGPT users and in the API as chat-latest. It produced 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims than GPT-5.3 Instant on high-stakes prompts covering medicine, law, and finance, and reduced inaccurate claims by 37.3% on conversations users flagged for factual errors.
GPT-5.5-Cyber
GPT-5.5-Cyber is rolling out in limited preview to defenders responsible for securing critical infrastructure, with more permissive behavior for authorized red teaming, penetration testing, and controlled validation, while GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber remains the recommended starting point for most security workflows.
GPT-Realtime-2
GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper are available in the Realtime API. GPT-Realtime-2 scores 15.2% higher on Big Bench Audio than GPT-Realtime-1.5 and 13.8% higher on Audio MultiChallenge for instruction following. Context window increases from 32K to 128K.
ChatGPT ads
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with beta self-serve Ads Manager and cost-per-click bidding, adding partners like Dentsu, Omnicom, Publicis, and WPP.
FedRAMP Moderate
ChatGPT Enterprise and API Platform achieved FedRAMP 20x Moderate authorization. Agencies can access GPT-5.5 in the FedRAMP environment, and Codex Cloud access via FedRAMP ChatGPT Enterprise workspace is coming soon.
OpenAI on AWS
OpenAI models including GPT-5.5, Codex, and Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI all launched in limited preview on AWS. Codex usage can apply toward AWS cloud commitments, and all customer data is processed by Amazon Bedrock.
Advanced Account Security
OpenAI introduced Advanced Account Security, an opt-in setting requiring passkeys or security keys, disabling email/SMS recovery, and shortening sessions, with Yubico bundle pricing.
ChatGPT for Clinicians
ChatGPT for Clinicians is now available for free to verified physicians, NPs, PAs, and pharmacists in the U.S. It includes frontier models, trusted clinical search, deep research across medical journals, and CME credit from real clinical questions.
Codex Labs
OpenAI is launching Codex Labs and partnering with Accenture, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, Infosys, PwC, and Tata Consultancy Services to bring Codex to enterprises, with weekly Codex usage growing from more than 3 million to more than 4 million developers in two weeks.
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro are now available in the API, rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex. Terminal-Bench 2.0 hits 82.7%, GDPval 84.9%, OSWorld-Verified 78.7%, and Tau2-bench Telecom 98.0% without prompt tuning.
Workspace agents
Workspace agents are now generally available in ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu. They run in the cloud, keep working when you are away, and can be deployed in Slack. Free until May 6, 2026, then credit-based pricing.
Hyatt ChatGPT Enterprise
Hyatt has deployed ChatGPT Enterprise across its global corporate and hotel workforce, with departments including finance, marketing, and operations using it to improve guest experience.
Agents SDK
The Agents SDK now includes native sandbox execution with built-in support for Blaxel, Cloudflare, Daytona, E2B, Modal, Runloop, and Vercel, plus snapshotting and rehydration so losing a sandbox container does not mean losing the run.
Cloudflare Agent Cloud
Cloudflare is expanding access to OpenAI frontier models including GPT-5.4 across Agent Cloud, and the Codex harness is now generally available in Cloudflare Sandboxes.
Codex update
Codex now operates your computer alongside you, works with more than 90 additional plugins, generates images with gpt-image-1.5, and serves more than 3 million developers who use it every week.
GPT-Rosalind
GPT-Rosalind is available globally to eligible organizations through OpenAI's trusted-access program. On LABBench2 it outperforms GPT-5.4 on 6 out of 11 tasks, and best-of-ten submissions ranked above the 95th percentile of human experts on an RNA sequence-to-function prediction task.
ChatGPT sales workflows
OpenAI Academy published a guide on using ChatGPT for sales teams, covering account research, meeting prep, follow-ups, deal management, and measuring impact.
OpenAI Axios compromise
OpenAI is revoking and rotating its macOS code signing certificate after the Axios developer tool compromise, requiring users to update macOS apps by May 8, 2026.
Codex pay-as-you-go
Teams on ChatGPT Business and Enterprise can add Codex-only seats with pay-as-you-go pricing and no rate limits. The annual price of ChatGPT Business drops from $25 to $20 per seat. Eligible workspaces receive $100 in credits per new Codex-only team member, up to $500 per team.
OpenAI $122 billion round
OpenAI closed a funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion. The company is generating $2 billion in revenue per month, and ChatGPT has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million subscribers.
ChatGPT product discovery
Visual product browsing, side-by-side comparison, and image-based search rolling out to all ChatGPT free, Go, Plus, and Pro users this week. Target, Sephora, Nordstrom, Lowe's, Best Buy, The Home Depot, and Wayfair are integrated.
Model Spec approach
OpenAI published the backstory of its Model Spec, detailing the Chain of Command, authority levels, decision rubrics, and concrete examples that define intended model behavior.
GPT-5.4 mini and nano
GPT-5.4 mini and nano released. Mini hits SWE-Bench Pro 54.4% and OSWorld-Verified 72.1%, running more than 2x faster than GPT-5 mini. Nano costs $0.20 per 1M input tokens and $1.25 per 1M output tokens.
ChatGPT interactive learning
ChatGPT now shows interactive visual explanations for more than 70 core math and science concepts, letting users adjust variables and see graphs change in real time. It is available globally across all plans.
Promptfoo acquisition
OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform trusted by over 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies, and will integrate its technology into OpenAI Frontier for automated security testing and red-teaming.
Prompt injection defenses
OpenAI describes social engineering-based prompt injection attacks and defenses like Safe Url that block silent data transmission.
Responses API computer env
OpenAI's Responses API now includes a shell tool and hosted container workspace for executing real-world tasks with filesystem, databases, and network access.
ChatGPT for Excel
ChatGPT for Excel is in beta, an Excel add-in that builds, updates, and analyzes spreadsheet models directly in workbooks. It is available globally to ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, Teachers, and K-12 users, and to ChatGPT Pro and Plus users outside the EU.
GPT-5.3 Instant
GPT-5.3 Instant is released as an update to ChatGPT's most-used model, reducing unnecessary refusals and improving web answer synthesis.
GPT-5.4
GPT-5.4 is released in ChatGPT as GPT-5.4 Thinking, the API, and Codex, with GPT-5.4 Pro also available. It scores 83.0% on GDPval, 57.7% on SWE-Bench Pro, 75.0% on OSWorld-Verified, and supports up to 1M tokens of context.
Codex Security
Codex Security, an application security agent, is in research preview, having scanned 1.2 million commits in 30 days and found 792 critical findings.
OpenAI-Amazon partnership
Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with $15 billion, and AWS becomes the exclusive third-party cloud distributor for OpenAI Frontier.
Stateful Runtime Environment
OpenAI and Amazon deliver a Stateful Runtime Environment in Amazon Bedrock, powered by OpenAI models, for production agentic workflows.
ChatGPT on GenAI.mil
OpenAI deployed a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, the Department of War's secure enterprise AI platform used by 3 million civilian and military personnel, for unclassified work in authorized government cloud infrastructure.
GPT-5.2 physics result
GPT-5.2 Pro conjectured a formula for single-minus gluon tree amplitudes, and an internal scaffolded GPT-5.2 spent roughly 12 hours producing a formal proof, with the preprint available on arXiv.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller GPT-5.3-Codex model that delivers more than 1000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware, with a 128k context window and text-only input.
Lockdown Mode
OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu, Healthcare, and Teachers, disabling live web access, image support, Deep Research, Agent Mode, and more to reduce prompt-injection risks.
GPT-5.3-Codex
GPT-5.3-Codex is available with paid ChatGPT plans everywhere Codex runs: the app, CLI, IDE extension, and web. It sets a new industry high on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench, runs 25% faster, and matches GPT-5.2 on GDPval.
OpenAI Frontier
Frontier is available today to a limited set of customers, with broader availability coming over the next few months. HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber are among the first adopters.
Codex app
The Codex app for macOS manages multiple agents in parallel, includes skills and Automations, and doubles rate limits on paid plans; over a million developers used Codex in the past month.
Prism
OpenAI introduced Prism, a free AI-native workspace for scientific writing and collaboration powered by GPT-5.2. It is available today to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account, with unlimited projects and collaborators.
Horizon 1000
OpenAI and the Gates Foundation are committing $50 million in funding, technology, and technical support to reach 1,000 primary healthcare clinics and their surrounding communities by 2028, beginning in Rwanda.
ServiceNow OpenAI agreement
ServiceNow announced OpenAI will be a preferred intelligence capability for enterprises that run more than 80 billion workflows each year on its platform, with GPT-5.2 built directly into the ServiceNow AI Platform.
ChatGPT Go
ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide at $8 per month in the US, offering 10x more messages, uploads, and image creation than the free tier, with GPT-5.2 Instant.
ChatGPT Health
A dedicated health space in ChatGPT with separate storage, memories, and encryption, launching to U.S. users 18 and older on web and iOS. Over 230 million people already ask health questions on ChatGPT weekly.
Datadog Codex review
Datadog deployed Codex across its engineering workforce, with more than 1,000 engineers using it regularly, and Codex found more than 10 cases, roughly 22% of incidents examined, where its feedback would have made a difference.
Netomi agentic systems
Netomi pairs GPT-4.1 for low-latency tool use with GPT-5.2 for multi-step planning, sustaining sub-three-second responses with 98% intent classification accuracy during traffic spikes above 40,000 concurrent customer requests per second.
OpenAI for Healthcare
ChatGPT for Healthcare, available starting today and rolling out to AdventHealth, Baylor Scott & White Health, Boston Children's Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, HCA Healthcare, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Stanford Medicine Children's Health, and UCSF.
Tolan voice AI
Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, cutting speech initiation time by over 0.7 seconds, dropping memory recall misses by 30%, and raising next-day user retention more than 20%.
Stargate SB Energy partnership
OpenAI and SoftBank each invest $500 million in SB Energy. OpenAI signs 1.2 GW data center lease in Milam County. SB Energy secures $800 million Redeemable Preferred Equity from Ares. Part of $500 billion Stargate commitment.
OpenAI Grove
OpenAI opened applications for Grove, a five-week program for about fifteen pre-idea technical individuals, with mentoring, workshops, and early access to new tools and models.
ChatGPT Images
The new ChatGPT Images model, powered by GPT Image 1.5, generates images up to 4x faster, makes precise edits while keeping details intact, and image inputs and outputs are now 20% cheaper in GPT Image 1.5 compared to GPT Image 1.
GPT-5.2-Codex System Card
GPT-5.2-Codex is very capable in the cybersecurity domain but does not reach High capability on cybersecurity, and it is being treated as High capability on biology with the corresponding suite of safeguards.
OpenAI Academy for News
OpenAI launched the Academy for News Organizations with the American Journalism Project and The Lenfest Institute, offering on-demand training and practical use cases.
BBVA ChatGPT Enterprise
BBVA expands ChatGPT Enterprise to all 120,000 global employees across 25 countries, a 10x increase from 11,000. Employees save nearly three hours per week on routine tasks and more than 80% engage daily.
Deutsche Telekom collaboration
Deutsche Telekom will introduce ChatGPT Enterprise across the company and create multilingual AI experiences for its more than 261 million mobile customers, with rollouts beginning in 2026.
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 Thinking scores 70.9% on GDPval knowledge work tasks, 55.6% on SWE-Bench Pro, 80.0% on SWE-bench Verified, 92.4% on GPQA Diamond, and 98.7% on Tau2-bench Telecom. GPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking, and Pro are available now in the API to all developers.
Disney Sora agreement
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and licenses 200+ characters for Sora, with fan videos streaming on Disney+ starting early 2026.
ChatGPT shopping research
Shopping research in ChatGPT is rolling out today on mobile and web for logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, powered by a version of GPT-5 mini trained with reinforcement learning specifically for shopping tasks.
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is available in Codex today for the CLI, IDE extension, cloud, and code review. It is the first model natively trained to operate across multiple context windows through compaction, working over millions of tokens in a single task.
ChatGPT for Teachers
ChatGPT for Teachers is free for verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2028, with education-grade security and admin controls.
Free ChatGPT for veterans
U.S. servicemembers and veterans within 12 months of retirement or separation can receive a free year of ChatGPT Plus.
GPT-5.1 for developers
GPT-5.1 is available on all paid API tiers with pricing and rate limits the same as GPT-5, plus gpt-5.1-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-mini.
Group chats in ChatGPT
Group chats roll out to all logged-in users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans globally over the coming days, with responses powered by GPT-5.1 Auto.
NYT privacy fight
OpenAI says the New York Times is demanding 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and that OpenAI is fighting the demand while developing client-side encryption.
OpenAI for Ireland
OpenAI launches OpenAI for Ireland with an SME Booster programme in 2026, a Dogpatch Labs partnership, and a three-year Patch partnership for founders aged 16 to 21.
Philips AI literacy
Philips is scaling AI literacy across 70,000 employees with ChatGPT Enterprise, moving from individual productivity to workflow-level automation.
GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking roll out to all users, with warmer tone, adaptive reasoning, and faster simple tasks. API release includes no-reasoning mode, 24-hour prompt caching, and new apply_patch and shell tools.
1 million business customers
OpenAI announced more than 1 million business customers around the world are directly using OpenAI, with more than 7 million total ChatGPT for Work seats, up 40% in just 2 months.
AWS OpenAI partnership
AWS and OpenAI announced a multi-year, strategic partnership that provides AWS infrastructure to run and scale OpenAI's core AI workloads starting immediately. The $38 billion agreement gives OpenAI access to AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, with the ability to expand to tens of millions of CPUs.
CRED Cleo
CRED built Cleo, an AI conversational companion powered by OpenAI models including GPT-4.0, GPT-5, and o3, and in three months since launch Cleo reached a 98% resolution accuracy rate with a 14 percentage point improvement in CSAT scores.
IndQA benchmark
OpenAI released IndQA, a new benchmark that evaluates AI systems on Indian culture and languages, spanning 2,278 questions across 12 languages and 10 cultural domains, created in partnership with 261 domain experts.
Aardvark
OpenAI announced Aardvark, an agentic security researcher powered by GPT-5 that identified 92% of known and synthetically-introduced vulnerabilities in benchmark testing and is now in private beta.
gpt-oss-safeguard
OpenAI released gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and 20b, open-weight reasoning models for safety classification under Apache 2.0, downloadable from Hugging Face.
ChatGPT sensitive conversations
OpenAI updated ChatGPT's default model to reduce undesired responses in sensitive conversations by 65-80%, working with over 170 mental health experts.
Company knowledge
Company knowledge for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu brings context from connected apps like Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, and GitHub into answers with citations, powered by a version of GPT-5 trained to look across multiple sources.
UK data residency
OpenAI is introducing UK data residency on Friday 24th October for API Platform, ChatGPT Enterprise, and ChatGPT Edu customers, and a new agreement with the UK Ministry of Justice will provide 2,500 employees with ChatGPT Enterprise access.
OpenAI acquires Sky
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky, a natural language interface for the Mac.
Plex Coffee with ChatGPT
Plex Coffee cut onboarding time from weeks to days and reduced operational WhatsApp questions by over 50% using ChatGPT Business.
Expert Council on Well-Being
OpenAI assembled the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with members from psychology and psychiatry, to guide ChatGPT and Sora development.
Stargate Argentina
OpenAI and Sur Energy signed a Letter of Intent to explore a large-scale data center project in Argentina, potentially the first Stargate in Latin America.
AMD GPU partnership
OpenAI and AMD announced a 6 gigawatt agreement across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs, with the first 1 gigawatt deployment of MI450 GPUs starting in the second half of 2026.
AgentKit
AgentKit launched with Agent Builder in beta, ChatKit generally available, and four new Evals capabilities: datasets, trace grading, automated prompt optimization, and third-party model support. Ramp cut iteration cycles by 70%.
Apps in ChatGPT
Apps in ChatGPT launched with the Apps SDK preview, an open standard built on the Model Context Protocol. Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow are live today for logged-in users outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK.
Codex
Codex is generally available with Slack integration, SDK, and admin tools. Daily usage grew 10x since early August; GPT-5-Codex served over 40 trillion tokens in three weeks. Cisco reports 50% faster code reviews.
Instant Checkout
U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Free users can now buy directly from U.S. Etsy sellers in chat, with over a million Shopify merchants like Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx and Vuori coming soon. The Agentic Commerce Protocol is open sourced today.
Sora 2
Sora 2 is a video and audio generation model with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, more accurate physics, and a characters feature that inserts a recorded person into generated scenes. The Sora iOS app is available to download now with initial rollout in the U.S. and Canada.
Sora 2 System Card
Sora 2 is available via sora.com, in a new standalone iOS Sora app, and in the future it will be available via the API, with initial access rolling out through limited invitations.
Parental controls
OpenAI launched parental controls for ChatGPT, letting parents link accounts, set quiet hours, disable voice, memory, image generation, and opt out of training.
ChatGPT Pulse
ChatGPT Pulse preview released to Pro users on mobile. ChatGPT does asynchronous research each night from memory, chat history, feedback, and connected Gmail or Google Calendar, then delivers personalized visual cards once a day.
GDPval
GDPval evaluates models on 1,320 tasks across 44 occupations, finding frontier models approach expert quality and complete tasks 100x faster and cheaper.
Shared projects and connectors
Shared projects for Business, Enterprise, Edu plans; new connectors to Gmail, Calendar, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, Dropbox, Box; ISO 27001/27017/27018/27701 certifications; SOC 2 expanded.
GPT-5-Codex
GPT-5-Codex is a version of GPT-5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex. It is the default for cloud tasks and code review, and developers can choose it for local tasks via Codex CLI and the IDE extension.
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