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How AI is giving Northern Ireland teachers time back
A six-month long pilot program with the Northern Ireland Education Authority’s C2k initiative found that integrating Gemini and other generative AI tools saved participating teachers an average of 10 hours per week.
Free ChatGPT for transitioning U.S. servicemembers and veterans
OpenAI is offering U.S. servicemembers and veterans within 12 months of retirement or separation a free year of ChatGPT Plus to support their transition to civilian life. The tools can help with resumes, interviews, education, and planning for what’s next.
Understanding prompt injections: a frontier security challenge
Prompt injections are a frontier security challenge for AI systems. Learn how these attacks work and how OpenAI is advancing research, training models, and building safeguards for users.
Introducing the Teen Safety Blueprint
Discover OpenAI’s Teen Safety Blueprint—a roadmap for building AI responsibly with safeguards, age-appropriate design, and collaboration to protect and empower young people online.
AI progress and recommendations
AI is advancing fast. We have the chance to shape its progress—toward discovery, safety, and a better future for everyone.
How CRED is tapping AI to deliver premium customer experiences
CRED is improving premium customer experiences in India with OpenAI, using GPT-powered tools to boost support accuracy, cut response times, and raise customer satisfaction.
Mapping, modeling, and understanding nature with AI
AI models can help map species, protect forests and listen to birds around the world
How Chime is redefining marketing through AI
Chime CMO Vineet Mehra shares how AI is reshaping marketing into an agent-driven model and why leaders who prioritize AI literacy and thoughtful adoption will drive growth.
1 million business customers putting AI to work
More than 1 million business customers around the world now use OpenAI. Across healthcare, life sciences, financial services, and more, ChatGPT and our APIs are driving a new era of intelligent, AI-powered work.
Beyond Standard LLMs
Linear Attention Hybrids, Text Diffusion, Code World Models, and Small Recursive Transformers
Introducing IndQA
OpenAI introduces IndQA, a new benchmark for evaluating AI systems in Indian languages. Built with domain experts, IndQA tests cultural understanding and reasoning across 12 languages and 10 knowledge areas.
AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership
OpenAI and AWS have entered a multi-year, $38 billion partnership to scale advanced AI workloads. AWS will provide world-class infrastructure and compute capacity to power OpenAI’s next generation of models.
Expanding Stargate to Michigan
OpenAI is expanding Stargate to Michigan with a new one-gigawatt campus that strengthens America’s AI infrastructure. The project will create jobs, drive investment, and support economic growth across the Midwest.
Introducing Aardvark: OpenAI’s agentic security researcher
OpenAI introduces Aardvark, an AI-powered security researcher that autonomously finds, validates, and helps fix software vulnerabilities at scale. The system is in private beta—sign up to join early testing.
Aligning to What? Rethinking Agent Generalization in MiniMax M2
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How we built OWL, the new architecture behind our ChatGPT-based browser, Atlas
A deep dive into OWL, the new architecture powering ChatGPT Atlas—decoupling Chromium, enabling fast startup, rich UI, and agentic browsing with ChatGPT.
Accelerating discovery with the AI for Math Initiative
The initiative brings together some of the world's most prestigious research institutions to pioneer the use of AI in mathematical research.
On the Shifting Global Compute Landscape
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Introducing gpt-oss-safeguard
OpenAI introduces gpt-oss-safeguard—open-weight reasoning models for safety classification that let developers apply and iterate on custom policies.
gpt-oss-safeguard technical report
gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b are two open-weight reasoning models post-trained from the gpt-oss models and trained to reason from a provided policy in order to label content under that policy. In this report, we describe gpt-oss-safeguard’s capabilities and provide our baseline s...
Building a Healthcare Robot from Simulation to Deployment with NVIDIA Isaac
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How to Build a Healthcare Robot from Simulation to Deployment with NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare
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Advancing organizational transformation for business innovation
DNP rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise across ten core departments, achieving 95% faster patent research, 10x processing volume, 87% automation, and 70% knowledge reuse in three months.
Granite 4.0 Nano: Just how small can you go?
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Doppel’s AI defense system stops attacks before they spread
Doppel uses GPT-5 and reinforcement fine-tuning to stop deepfake and impersonation attacks, cutting analyst workloads by 80% and reducing response times from hours to minutes.