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Moving AI governance forward
OpenAI and other leading labs reinforce AI safety, security and trustworthiness through voluntary commitments.
Custom instructions for ChatGPT
We’re rolling out custom instructions to give you more control over how ChatGPT responds. Set your preferences, and ChatGPT will keep them in mind for all future conversations.
Partnership with American Journalism Project to support local news
Title: Partnership with American Journalism Project to support local news
Accurately analyzing large scale qualitative data
Title: Accurately analyzing large scale qualitative data
Frontier AI regulation: Managing emerging risks to public safety
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Insights from global conversations
We are sharing what we learned from our conversations across 22 countries, and how we will be incorporating those insights moving forward.
Latest ChatGPT videos
739 published videos
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You can just keep the work moving
ChatGPT Work keeps projects moving. Monitoring what matters, surfacing what needs attention, and picking up where your team leaves off.
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How Base44 Uses GPT-5.6 to Build Apps With 20% Fewer Tokens
Base44 helps people turn natural language into production-ready applications and custom AI agents—no coding required. In this Startup Spotlight, Yoav Farhi, Staff AI Engineer at Base44, shares how the team tested GPT-5.6 across a wide rang...
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Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT‑5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
Today we’re previewing Ultrafast mode, a new service tier in the OpenAI API for GPT‑5.6 Sol. Powered by Cerebras, Ultrafast runs up to 14x faster than Standard processing and generates up to 750 output tokens per second. OpenAI technical s...
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Inside Cricket’s Smartest Backroom | Rajasthan Royals | ChatGPT @rajasthanroyals
What gives one of cricket’s smartest teams its edge before the first ball is bowled? Go behind the scenes with Rajasthan Royals as Kumar Sangakkara and the franchise’s analytics and technology teams reveal how ChatGPT and OpenAI tools supp...
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Computer History in ChatGPT
Codex & ChatGPT can now understand the context around what you’re working on. When you opt in to Computer History, it can help you pick up where you left off, get back to unfinished projects, and see suggested skills or scheduled tasks bas...
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Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT‑5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
“There’s an old adage that performance can be a feature because when something becomes fast enough, it changes behavior.” Today we’re previewing Ultrafast mode, a new service tier in the OpenAI API for GPT‑5.6 Sol. Powered by Cerebras, Ult...
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.
