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Introducing OpenAI Academy for News Organizations
OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, a new learning hub built with the American Journalism Project and The Lenfest Institute to help newsrooms use AI effectively. The Academy offers training, practical use cases, and responsible-use guidance to support journalists, editors,...
The state of enterprise AI
A data-driven look at enterprise AI adoption, showing how organizations move from experimentation to real productivity gains and new capabilities.
Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT
Developers can now submit apps for review and publication in ChatGPT, with approved apps appearing in a new in-product directory for easy discovery. Updated tools, guidelines, and the Apps SDK help developers build powerful chat-native experiences that bring real-world actions into ChatGPT.
Gemma Scope 2: helping the AI safety community deepen understanding of complex language model behavior
Open interpretability tools for language models are now available across the entire Gemma 3 family with the release of Gemma Scope 2.
Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks
OpenAI introduces FrontierScience, a benchmark testing AI reasoning in physics, chemistry, and biology to measure progress toward real scientific research.
Measuring AI’s capability to accelerate biological research
OpenAI introduces a real-world evaluation framework to measure how AI can accelerate biological research in the wet lab. Using GPT-5 to optimize a molecular cloning protocol, the work explores both the promise and risks of AI-assisted experimentation.
The new ChatGPT Images is here
The new ChatGPT Images is powered by our flagship image generation model, delivering more precise edits, consistent details, and image generation up to 4× faster. The upgraded model is rolling out to all ChatGPT users today and is also available in the API as GPT-Image-1.5.
Staying ahead in the age of AI
Discover how leaders can build AI-ready organizations using clear strategy, training, governance, and accelerated innovation.
CUGA on Hugging Face: Democratizing Configurable AI Agents
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Improved Gemini audio models for powerful voice experiences
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How We Used Codex to Ship Sora for Android in 28 Days
OpenAI shipped Sora for Android in 28 days using Codex. AI-assisted planning, translation, and parallel coding workflows helped a nimble team deliver rapid, reliable development.
BBVA and OpenAI collaborate to transform global banking
BBVA is expanding its work with OpenAI through a multi-year AI transformation program, rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise to all 120,000 employees. Together, the companies will develop AI solutions that enhance customer interactions, streamline operations, and help build an AI-native banking experience.
BNY builds “AI for everyone, everywhere” with OpenAI
BNY uses OpenAI to expand AI adoption enterprise-wide through Eliza, where 20,000+ employees build AI agents that improve efficiency and client outcomes.
New in llama.cpp: Model Management
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Advancing science and math with GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s strongest model yet for math and science, setting new state-of-the-art results on benchmarks like GPQA Diamond and FrontierMath. This post shows how those gains translate into real research progress, including solving an open theoretical problem and generating reliable mathematic...
Deepening our partnership with the UK AI Security Institute
Google DeepMind and UK AI Security Institute (AISI) strengthen collaboration on critical AI safety and security research
Update to GPT-5 System Card: GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 is the latest model family in the GPT-5 series. The comprehensive safety mitigation approach for these models is largely the same as that described in the GPT-5 System Card and GPT-5.1 System Card. Like OpenAI’s other models, the GPT-5.2 models were trained on diverse datasets, including inf...
Ten years
OpenAI reflects on ten years of progress, from early research breakthroughs to widely used AI systems that reshaped what’s possible. We share lessons from the past decade and why we remain optimistic about building AGI that benefits all of humanity.
Introducing GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 is our most advanced frontier model for everyday professional work, with state-of-the-art reasoning, long-context understanding, coding, and vision. Use it in ChatGPT and the OpenAI API to power faster, more reliable agentic workflows.
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters to Sora
Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement to bring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters to Sora for fan-inspired short videos. The agreement emphasizes responsible AI in entertainment and includes Disney’s company-wide use of ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API.
How Podium is arming 10,000+ SMBs with AI agents
Discover how Podium used OpenAI’s GPT-5 to build “Jerry,” an AI teammate driving 300% growth and transforming how Main Street businesses serve customers.
Codex is Open Sourcing AI models
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Strengthening our partnership with the UK government to support prosperity and security in the AI era
Deepening our partnership with the UK government to support prosperity and security in the AI era
Strengthening cyber resilience as AI capabilities advance
OpenAI is investing in stronger safeguards and defensive capabilities as AI models become more powerful in cybersecurity. We explain how we assess risk, limit misuse, and work with the security community to strengthen cyber resilience.
How Scout24 is building the next generation of real-estate search with AI
Scout24 has created a GPT-5 powered conversational assistant that reimagines real-estate search, guiding users with clarifying questions, summaries, and tailored listing recommendations.