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Latest ChatGPT updates
1,036 published updates
Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.
Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
We’re developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not large enough to be conclusive, our finding is a starting point for continued research and community deliberation.
New embedding models and API updates
Democratic inputs to AI grant program: lessons learned and implementation plans
We funded 10 teams from around the world to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI. We summarize the innovations, outline our learnings, and call for researchers and engineers to join us as we continue this work.
How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections
We’re working to prevent abuse, provide transparency on AI-generated content, and improve access to accurate voting information.
Building agricultural database for farmers
Digital Green uses OpenAI to increase farmer income.
Latest ChatGPT videos
628 published videos
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Codex for Solutions Engineers: Making AI Tangible for Customers
"As a solutions engineer, my job is to make customers believe our technology can take them where they want to go. Codex helps me turn raw, messy context - customer emails, industry signals, product information, and even Trustpilot reviews -...
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Setup with ChatGPT
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Grow With ChatGPT
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Advent Accelerates Deals with ChatGPT + Codex
ChatGPT + Codex are a one-two punch for investment firms. "Having the ability to connect your deal folder with all of the context, and then be able to ask ChatGPT and Codex real time questions has been really impactful to our workflows,"...
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Builders Unscripted: Ep. 4 - Pietro Schirano
Pietro Schirano, Founder & CEO of MagicPath sits down with Romain Huet to talk about pushing the creative edges of GPT-5.5 and using Codex to turn ideas into software. 03:45 Images into sound 07:57 Multi-agent Codex workflows 14:34 Revivin...
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Verso, l'entreprise qui ne dort jamais
Découvrez comment Verso développe une entreprise véritablement AI-native. Lors de cette session enregistrée lors de l'événement OpenAI France en juin 2026, Lydia Bellahouel, cofondatrice et CEO de Verso, partage la manière dont son équipe s...
OpenAI started in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab dedicated to ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In November 2022, ChatGPT changed the public's perception of AI overnight — reaching one million users in five days and accelerating the entire industry by years. Today, OpenAI operates across consumer products, enterprise tools, and a developer API that powers thousands of applications worldwide, making it the most recognized name in modern AI.
Timeline
Founded as a nonprofit AI research lab in San Francisco.
GPT-1 released; first transformer-based language model.
GPT-3 launched, opening the API to developers.
ChatGPT released — reaches 1 million users in 5 days.
GPT-4 released; plugins and multimodal capabilities added.
GPT-4o and o1 reasoning models launched; Sora video model unveiled.
o3 and o4-mini released; GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 roadmap confirmed.