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OpenAI says a coordinated campaign extracted protected reasoning from its models — 16,000 requests from 4,000+ users at the July 24-25 spike, a wider cluster of 15,000+ users disrupted by July 28. A core cluster is attributed to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi.
The first essay on OpenAI's new independent-voices platform argues that as ideas get cheaper, the bottleneck shifts to the machinery of execution — and that superintelligence's superpower may be its willingness to do the boring.
Announced September 17, Astra for Law bundles GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and legal drafting instructions; on Vals AI's Legal Research Bench it passes overall correctness at 54.0% versus 38.7% for web search alone.
OpenAI committed to a new framework for disclosing instances of model misalignment and published six examples of unexpected behavior seen internally over the past six months, Ars Technica reports.
Both launched September 10: a hosted version of the Codex agent harness with no extra fee beyond tokens and tools, and OpenAI's full-duplex voice model at $0.05 per minute for the front-end layer.
On September 9 OpenAI's enterprise post says GPT-6 Astra is now generally available in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API from $10/$50 per million tokens; the official posts never use 'AGI era' framing.
OpenAI's September 8 image model update arrives against a backdrop of more than 3 billion images created weekly across ChatGPT and the API, and adds GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst for developers.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026 for coding, research and data analysis; GPT-5.5 Instant became ChatGPT's default in May.
Crunchbase data: startups raised a record $189 billion in February 2026, with AI-related companies capturing $171 billion — 90% of the total.
OpenAI released GPT-5.1 on November 12, 2025, adding adaptive reasoning, a warmer conversational style and eight personality presets.
On October 28, 2025, OpenAI completed its historic restructure into OpenAI Group PBC, clearing its fundraising constraints.
OpenAI released Atlas, a browser with ChatGPT built in, on October 21, 2025 — joining Perplexity's Comet in making the browser the new AI-entry battleground.
At DevDay on October 6, 2025, OpenAI shipped AgentKit and the Apps SDK, and opened Sora 2 and GPT-5 Pro via API — a full platform play.
OpenAI released the Sora 2 model and a social app on September 30, 2025, letting users cameo themselves and friends in AI videos — topping the App Store at launch.
On September 22, 2025, Nvidia and OpenAI signed an LOI to deploy at least 10GW of Nvidia systems, with Nvidia investing up to $100 billion as each gigawatt lands.
In September 2025 OpenAI signed a five-year, $300 billion compute contract with Oracle starting in 2027, sending Oracle shares soaring.
OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, calling it its 'smartest, fastest, most useful model yet,' with built-in thinking available to free users.
OpenAI released the gpt-oss-120b and 20b open-weight reasoning models on August 5, 2025 — its first open weights since GPT-2.
In July 2025, Google DeepMind's Gemini Deep Think and OpenAI's experimental model both hit gold-medal level at the IMO — LLMs matching gold medalists for the first time.
In July 2025 Windsurf lived the wildest 72 hours in startup history: after the OpenAI deal collapsed, Google paid $2.4B for the founders and Cognition bought whatever was left.
OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini, the first reasoning models to integrate web browsing, Python, and image analysis directly into their chain of thought.
On March 26, 2025, a federal judge rejected OpenAI's motion to dismiss, letting The New York Times's core copyright claims proceed — with Microsoft as co-defendant.
From Gemini (Dec 2024) to OpenAI (Feb 2025) to the whole industry, autonomous research agents went from novelty to table stakes within a year.
In January-February 2025, OpenAI launched Operator, a browser-driving agent, and Deep Research, an autonomous research agent — agents became products.