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Daily Brief — 2026-05-04

Today's AI brief for **2026-05-04** rounds up 8 notable stories across 5 sources (Ars Technica – AI, Financial Times – AI, Google AI, IEEE Spectrum – AI, MIT Technology Review – AI). Top headline: *"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original* — Ars Technica – AI.

"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original

Ars Technica – AI · May 4, 2026

"To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."

Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work

Ars Technica – AI · May 4, 2026

Intentional errors can be useful.

The latest AI news we announced in April 2026

Google AI · May 4, 2026

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Musk threatened to make OpenAI’s Altman and Brockman ‘the most hated men in America’

Financial Times – AI · May 4, 2026

Text exchange revealed in court filings came after world’s richest man tried to start last-minute settlement talks

Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: What it was like in the room

MIT Technology Review – AI · May 4, 2026

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions…

Reduce friction and latency for long-running jobs with Webhooks in Gemini API

Google AI · May 4, 2026

Gemini API

Peter Thiel backs $1bn ocean data centre start-up powered by waves

Financial Times – AI · May 4, 2026

US tech billionaire leads $140mn investment into Panthalassa as search for AI power pushes into exotic new frontiers

Perfectly Aligning AI’s Values With Humanity’s Is Impossible

IEEE Spectrum – AI · May 4, 2026

One of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence is “alignment,” or making sure AI goals match our own, a challenge that may prove especially important if superintelligent AIs that outmatch us intellectually are ever developed. But scientists in England and their colleagues now report in the journal PNAS Nexus t…

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Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: What it was like in the room

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
Perfectly Aligning AI’s Values With Humanity’s Is Impossible

One of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence is “alignment,” or making sure AI goals match our own, a challenge that may prove especially important if superintelligent AIs that outmatch us intellectually are ever developed. But scientists in England and their colleagues now report in the journal PNAS Nexus t…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch

This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics.This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity, which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high resolution tactile sensing and spanning a wide range of tasks from folding laundry at home to manufact…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
FTAV’s further reading

Drew Dickson on tech hype; Goldman on private credit; Smithsonian on Twister; ‘This is Fine’ dog on Steam

Financial Times – AI ·
AI in Practice

Water utilities jettison listening sticks; restaurants aim to cut waste and reduce costs; recruiters’ quest to find the perfect connection; start-ups move fast with AI-generated code; hedge funds seek an edge; wealth managers insist AI can work in their favour

Financial Times – AI ·
Deepfake Detection Dataset Aims to Keep Up With Generative AI

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. With the rise of AI-generated content online, it’s becoming more difficult—and more important—to help the public identify whether an image, audio clip, or video is real or fake. To combat the problem, a team of researchers…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
The physical world strikes back

The Iran war is a reminder that geographic facts rather than digital tech shape our lives

Financial Times – AI ·
Cyber-Insecurity in the AI Era

Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexity, the limits of legacy approaches are becoming harder to ignore. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI conference explores why security must be rethought with AI at its c…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
Operationalizing AI for Scale and Sovereignty

Companies are taking control of their own data to tailor AI for their needs. The challenge lies in balancing ownership with the safe, trusted flow of high‑quality data needed to power reliable insights. This conversation from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI conference examines how AI factories unlock new level…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
AI Processing of Earth Images Can Now Run in Space

AI image processing aboard satellites in space has been a goal of the Earth observation industry for years. Now it has finally been achieved. Planet Labs, based in Calif., released an image captured by its Pelican-4 multispectral satellite showing an airport in Alice Springs, Australia. On the tarmac, more than a doze…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content

A new US-wide cell phone network marketed to Christians is set to launch next week. It blocks porn, which experts in network security say marks the first time a US cell plan has used network-level blocking for such content that can’t be turned off even by adult account owners. It’s also rolling out a filter…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
How bots could help revive democracy

New AI tools encouraging deliberation could promote consensus and reduce polarisation in politics

Financial Times – AI ·
This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give model makers more fine-grained control over how this technology is buil…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
Making the case for curiosity-driven science

President Sally Kornbluth spoke in front of a packed crowd about growing challenges to the U.S. research ecosystem as funding for America’s top research universities becomes increasingly strained.

MIT News – AI ·
Introducing Advanced Account Security

Introducing Advanced Account Security: phishing-resistant login, stronger recovery, and enhanced protections to safeguard sensitive data and prevent account takeover.

OpenAI ·
Where the goblins came from

How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.

OpenAI ·
Can Biologists Rewrite the Genome’s Spaghetti Code?

What if biology stopped being something we study and started becoming something we design? That’s the premise of Adrian Woolfson’s new book, On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence, which published on 28 April from MIT Press. He argues that advances in AI and DNA synthes…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age

OpenAI outlines a five-part action plan for strengthening cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age, focused on democratizing AI-powered cyber defense and protecting critical systems.

OpenAI ·
Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes

When it comes to AI models, size matters.Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a staggering 2 trillion parameters that defin…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”

It started with word, cave, and storytelling,A line scratched on stone walls:“Meet me when the young moon rises.”The first protocol for connection.Coyote tales, forbidden scripts,Medieval texts hidden from flame.What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics II?Was it God who laughed last, or we who made God laugh?Letters car…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Our commitment to community safety

Learn how OpenAI protects community safety in ChatGPT through model safeguards, misuse detection, policy enforcement, and collaboration with safety experts.

OpenAI ·
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future

After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have sweeping consequences. Ahead of OpenAI’s highly anticipated IPO, the court could rule on whether the company is allowed to exist as a for-profit enterprise and might even ou…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
The missing step between hype and profit

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. I can’t say for sure whether or not its writers meant to riff on South Park’s underpants gnomes. But…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
Claude Mythos Preview Requires New Ways to Keep Code Secure

Malicious actors are now exploiting generative AI to carry out cyberattacks: scamming victims using AI-generated deepfakes, deploying malware developed with the help of AI coding tools, using chatbots to pull off phishing campaigns, and hacking widely used open-source code repositories with AI agents. And these AI-dri…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
OpenAI available at FedRAMP Moderate

OpenAI is available at FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API, enabling secure AI adoption for U.S. federal agencies.

OpenAI ·
Rebuilding the data stack for AI

Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data. While consumer-facing AI tools have dazzled users with speed and ease, enterprise leaders are discovering that deploying AI at scale requires so…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
Engineering Collisions: How NYU Is Remaking Health Research

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering.The traditional approach to academic research goes something like this: Assemble experts from a discipline, put them in a building, and hope something useful emerges. Biology departments do biology. Engineering departments do engineering. Med…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Modeling and Simulation Approaches for Modern Power System Studies

This webinar covers power system modeling and simulation across multiple timescales, from quasi-static 8760 analysis through EMT studies, fault classification, and inverter-based resource grid integration.What Attendees will LearnProgrammatic network construction and multi-fidelity modeling — Learn how to build power…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

The “EnergAIzer” method generates reliable results in seconds, enabling data center operators to efficiently allocate resources and reduce wasted energy.

MIT News – AI ·
An open-source spec for orchestration: Symphony

Learn how Symphony, an open-source spec for Codex orchestration, turns issue trackers into always-on agent systems—boosting engineering output and reducing context switching.

OpenAI ·
Our principles

Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Sam Altman shares five principles that guide our work.

OpenAI ·
Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters

On April 24, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. The model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s previous models, V4 is open source, meaning it is…

MIT Technology Review – AI ·
8 Gemini tips for organizing your space (and life)

Black screen with illustrations including a laptop with document and email icons streaming out, a smiling person holding a phone and looking at a checklist, and a user activating Gemini Live

Google AI ·
GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery

Think one GPU is very much like another? Think again. It turns out that there’s surprising variability in the performance delivered by chips of the same model. That can make getting your money’s worth by renting time on a GPU from a cloud provider a real roll of the dice, according to research from the College of Will…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity

Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure that thousands of softwar…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
AI Designs Thermoelectric Generators 10,000 Times Faster Than We Can

Waste heat is everywhere: car engines, industrial machinery, kitchen appliances—even your own body. Some of that lost energy can be converted into electricity using thermoelectric generators: compact, solid-state devices that produce power directly from temperature differences without the need for spinning turbines or…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Introducing GPT-5.5

Introducing GPT-5.5, our smartest model yet—faster, more capable, and built for complex tasks like coding, research, and data analysis across tools.

OpenAI ·
What is Codex?

Learn how Codex helps you go beyond chat by automating tasks, connecting tools, and producing real outputs like docs and dashboards.

OpenAI ·
Working with Codex

Learn how to set up your Codex workspace, create threads and projects, manage files, and start completing tasks with step-by-step guidance.

OpenAI ·
Plugins and skills

Learn how to use Codex plugins and skills to connect tools, access data, and follow repeatable workflows to automate tasks and improve results.

OpenAI ·
Automations

Learn how to automate tasks in Codex using schedules and triggers to create reports, summaries, and recurring workflows without manual effort.

OpenAI ·
How to get started with Codex

Learn how to get started with Codex by setting up projects, creating threads, and completing your first tasks with step-by-step guidance.

OpenAI ·
Codex settings

Learn how to configure Codex settings, including personalization, detail level, and permissions, to run tasks smoothly and customize your workflow.

OpenAI ·
Top 10 uses for Codex at work

Explore 10 practical Codex use cases to automate tasks, create deliverables, and turn real inputs into outputs across tools, files, and workflows.

OpenAI ·
GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

Explore the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty: a red-teaming challenge to find universal jailbreaks for bio safety risks, with rewards up to $25,000.

OpenAI ·
Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.

MIT News – AI ·
AutoAdapt: Automated domain adaptation for large language models

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-world, high-stakes settings is harder than it should be. In high-stakes settings like law, medicine, and cloud incident response, performance and reliability can quickly break down because adapting models to domain-specific requirements is a slow and manual process that i…

Microsoft Research ·
Making ChatGPT better for clinicians

OpenAI makes ChatGPT for Clinicians free for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists, supporting clinical care, documentation, and research.

OpenAI ·
AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch

In 2020, researchers fine-tuned a GPT-2 model to design fragments of logic circuits; in 2023, researchers used GPT-4 to help design an 8-bit processor with a novel instruction set; by 2024, a variety of LLMs could design and test chips with basic functionality, like dice rolls (though often these were flawed).Now Verk…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Workspace agents

Learn how to build, use, and scale workspace agents in ChatGPT to automate repeatable workflows, connect tools, and streamline team operations.

OpenAI ·
Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT

Workspace agents in ChatGPT are Codex-powered agents that automate complex workflows, run in the cloud, and help teams scale work across tools securely.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter

OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0

ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.

OpenAI ·
Scaling Codex to enterprises worldwide

OpenAI launches Codex Labs, partners with with Accenture, PwC, Infosys, and others to help enterprises deploy and scale Codex across the software development lifecycle, and hits 4M Codex WAU.

OpenAI ·
Can we AI our way to a more sustainable world?

Doug Burger, sustainability expert Amy Luers, and optimization researcher Ishai Menache examine the global emissions implications of datacenter operations, efficiency gains, and AI's potential across electrification, materials, and food systems.

Microsoft Research ·
Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

GRASP is a new gradient-based planner for learned dynamics (a “world model”) that makes long-horizon planning practical by (1) lifting the trajectory into virtual states so optimization is parallel across time, (2) adding stochasticity directly to the state iterates for exploration, and (3) reshaping gradients so acti…

Berkeley BAIR ·
Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Rail networks are vast, which makes it difficult to conduct comprehensive, continuous safety monitoring. Researchers in China have suggested analyzing the vibrations of existing fiber cables buried underground alongside ra…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Codex for (almost) everything

The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.

OpenAI ·
The next evolution of the Agents SDK

OpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools.

OpenAI ·
​Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason​

The amazing and frustrating thing about robots is that they can do almost anything you want them to do, as long as you know how to ask properly. In the not-so-distant past, asking properly meant writing code, and while we’ve thankfully moved beyond that brittle constraint, there’s still an irritatingly inverse correla…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Sarang Gupta Builds AI Systems With Real-World Impact

Like many engineers, Sarang Gupta spent his childhood tinkering with everyday items around the house. From a young age he gravitated to projects that could make a difference in someone’s everyday life.When the family’s microwave plug broke, Gupta and his father figured out how to fix it. When a drawer handle started j…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Human-machine teaming dives underwater

Researchers are developing hardware and algorithms to improve collaboration between divers and autonomous underwater vehicles engaged in maritime missions.

MIT News – AI ·
Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI

As the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marks 75 years, Dean Agustín Rayo reflects on how AI is reshaping higher education and why SHASS disciplines continue to be central to MIT’s mission.

MIT News – AI ·
Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense

OpenAI expands its Trusted Access for Cyber program, introducing GPT-5.4-Cyber to vetted defenders and strengthening safeguards as AI cybersecurity capabilities advance.

OpenAI ·
12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2026

The capabilities of leading AI models continue to accelerate, and the largest AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are hurtling toward IPOs later this year. Yet resentment toward AI continues to simmer, and in some cases has boiled over, especially in the United States, where local governments are beginning t…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
ChatGPT for customer success teams

Learn how customer success teams use ChatGPT to manage accounts, improve communication, reduce churn, and drive adoption and renewals.

OpenAI ·
Brainstorming with ChatGPT

Learn how to use ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, organize thinking, and turn rough concepts into structured, actionable plans.

OpenAI ·
Prompting fundamentals

Learn prompting fundamentals and how to write clear, effective prompts to get better, more useful responses from ChatGPT.

OpenAI ·
Healthcare

Explore how clinicians use ChatGPT to support diagnosis, documentation, and patient care with secure, HIPAA-compliant AI tools.

OpenAI ·
Research with ChatGPT

Learn how to research with ChatGPT using search and deep research to find up-to-date information, analyze sources, and generate structured insights.

OpenAI ·
Responsible and safe use of AI

Learn how to use AI responsibly with best practices for safety, accuracy, and transparency when using tools like ChatGPT.

OpenAI ·
Writing with ChatGPT

Learn how to use ChatGPT for writing to draft, revise, and refine content with clear structure, tone, and intent.

OpenAI ·
ChatGPT for marketing teams

Learn how marketing teams use ChatGPT to plan campaigns, generate content, analyze performance, and move from ideas to execution faster.

OpenAI ·
ChatGPT for managers

Learn how managers use ChatGPT to prepare for conversations, write clear feedback, stay organized, and improve team effectiveness.

OpenAI ·
Financial services

Explore AI resources for financial services, including prompt packs, GPTs, guides, and tools to help institutions deploy and scale AI securely.

OpenAI ·
Working with files in ChatGPT

Learn how to upload and work with files in ChatGPT to analyze data, summarize documents, and generate content from PDFs, spreadsheets, and more.

OpenAI ·
ChatGPT for operations teams

Learn how operations teams use ChatGPT to streamline workflows, improve coordination, standardize processes, and drive faster execution.

OpenAI ·
Using custom GPTs

Learn how to build and use custom GPTs to automate workflows, maintain consistent outputs, and create purpose-built AI assistants.

OpenAI ·
ChatGPT for research

Learn how to use ChatGPT for research to gather sources, analyze information, and create structured, citation-backed insights.

OpenAI ·
Personalizing ChatGPT

Learn how to personalize ChatGPT using custom instructions and memory to get more relevant, consistent, and tailored responses.

OpenAI ·
ChatGPT for finance teams

Learn how finance teams use ChatGPT to streamline reporting, analyze data, improve forecasts, and communicate insights more clearly.

OpenAI ·
Analyzing data with ChatGPT

Learn how to analyze data with ChatGPT by exploring datasets, generating insights, creating visualizations, and turning findings into actionable decisions.

OpenAI ·
Using skills

Learn how to create and use ChatGPT skills to build reusable workflows, automate recurring tasks, and ensure consistent, high-quality outputs.

OpenAI ·
Creating images with ChatGPT

Learn how to create and refine images with ChatGPT using clear prompts, iterate on designs, and generate high-quality visuals in minutes.

OpenAI ·
Getting started with ChatGPT

Learn how to use ChatGPT, start your first conversation, and discover simple ways to write, brainstorm, and solve problems with AI.

OpenAI ·
Applications of AI at OpenAI

Explore how OpenAI products like ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs bring AI into real-world use for work, development, and everyday tasks.

OpenAI ·
ChatGPT for sales teams

Learn how sales teams use ChatGPT to research accounts, personalize outreach, manage deals, and improve pipeline and conversion.

OpenAI ·
Using projects in ChatGPT

Learn how to use projects in ChatGPT to organize chats, files, and instructions, manage ongoing work, and collaborate more effectively.

OpenAI ·
AI fundamentals

Learn what AI is, how it works, and how tools like ChatGPT use large language models. A clear, beginner-friendly guide to understanding artificial intelligence.

OpenAI ·
A philosophy of work

As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.

MIT News – AI ·
New Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits

For the past five years, the New Future of Work report has captured how work is changing. This year, the shift feels especially sharp. Previous editions have focused on technology’s role in increasing productivity by automating tasks, accelerating communication, and expanding access to information, as well as the rise…

Microsoft Research ·
Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want

Microsoft Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and researchers Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Rebecca Janssen unpack the New Future of Work Report 2025 and explore the ideal AI-driven working world. Plus, is AI a tool or a collaborator? And why the answer matters.

Microsoft Research ·
GoZTASP: A Zero-Trust Platform for Governing Autonomous Systems at Mission Scale

ZTASP is a mission-scale assurance and governance platform designed for autonomous systems operating in real-world environments. It integrates heterogeneous systems—including drones, robots, sensors, and human operators—into a unified zero-trust architecture. Through Secure Runtime Assurance (SRTA) and Secure Spatio-T…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
OpenAI Full Fan Mode Contest: Terms & Conditions

Explore the official terms and conditions for the OpenAI Full Fan Mode Contest, including eligibility, entry steps, judging criteria, and prize details. Learn how to participate, submit your entry on Instagram, and win IPL match tickets.

OpenAI ·
AI Models Map the Colorado River’s Hard Choices

The Colorado River begins as snow. Every spring, the mountain snowpack of the Rockies melts into streams that feed into reservoirs that supply 40 million people across seven U.S. states. The system has worked, more or less, for a century. That century is over.By some measures, 2026 is shaping up to be the worst year t…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
The next phase of enterprise AI

OpenAI outlines the next phase of enterprise AI, as adoption accelerates across industries with Frontier, ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and company-wide AI agents.

OpenAI ·
Introducing the Child Safety Blueprint

Discover OpenAI’s Child Safety Blueprint—a roadmap for building AI responsibly with safeguards, age-appropriate design, and collaboration to protect and empower young people online.

OpenAI ·
Decentralized Training Can Help Solve AI’s Energy Woes

Artificial intelligence harbors an enormous energy appetite. Such constant cravings are evident in the hefty carbon footprint of the data centers behind the AI boom and the steady increase over time of carbon emissions from training frontier AI models.No wonder big tech companies are warming up to nuclear energy, envi…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Why AI Systems Fail Quietly

In late-stage testing of a distributed AI platform, engineers sometimes encounter a perplexing situation: Every monitoring dashboard reads “healthy,” yet users report that the system’s decisions are slowly becoming wrong.Engineers are trained to recognize failure in familiar ways: a service crashes, a sensor stops res…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
AI Is Insatiable

While browsing our website a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon “How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End” by Senior Editor Samuel K. Moore. His analysis focuses on the current DRAM shortage caused by AI hyperscalers’ ravenous appetite for memory, a major constraint on the speed at which large language models run. M…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age

Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.

OpenAI ·
Working to advance the nuclear renaissance

Dean Price, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sees a bright future for nuclear power, and believes AI can help us realize that vision.

MIT News – AI ·
OpenAI acquires TBPN

OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.

OpenAI ·
Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems

MIT researchers developed a testing framework that pinpoints situations where AI decision-support systems are not treating people and communities fairly.

MIT News – AI ·
ADeLe: Predicting and explaining AI performance across tasks

AI benchmarks report how large language models (LLMs) perform on specific tasks but provide little insight into their underlying capabilities that drive their performance. They do not explain failures or reliably predict outcomes on new tasks. To address this, Microsoft researchers in collaboration with Princeton Univ…

Microsoft Research ·
Accelerating the next phase of AI

OpenAI raises $122 billion in new funding to expand frontier AI globally, invest in next-generation compute, and meet growing demand for ChatGPT, Codex, and enterprise AI.

OpenAI ·
The AI Data Centers That Fit on a Truck

A traditional data center protects the expensive hardware inside it with a “shell” constructed from steel and concrete. Constructing a data center’s shell is inexpensive compared to the cost of the hardware and infrastructure inside it, but it’s not trivial. It takes time for engineers to consider potential sites, app…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Why Are Large Language Models So Terrible at Video Games?

Large language models (LLMs) have improved so quickly that the benchmarks themselves have evolved, adding more complex problems in an effort to challenge the latest models. Yet LLMs haven’t improved across all domains, and one task remains far outside their grasp: They have no idea how to play video games. While a few…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
NYU’s Quantum Institute Bridges Science and Application

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering.Within a 6 mile radius of New York University’s (NYU) campus, there are more than 500 tech industry giants, banks, and hospitals. This isn’t just a fact about real estate, it’s the foundation for advancing quantum discovery and application.Wh…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Seeing sounds

Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.

MIT News – AI ·
AsgardBench: A benchmark for visually grounded interactive planning

Imagine a robot tasked with cleaning a kitchen. It needs to observe its environment, decide what to do, and adjust when things don’t go as expected, for example, when the mug it was tasked to wash is already clean, or the sink is full of other items. This is the domain of embodied AI: systems […]

Microsoft Research ·
GroundedPlanBench: Spatially grounded long-horizon task planning for robot manipulation

Vision-language models (VLMs) use images and text to plan robot actions, but they still struggle to decide what actions to take and where to take them. Most systems split these decisions into two steps: a VLM generates a plan in natural language, and a separate model translates it into executable actions. This approac…

Microsoft Research ·
Training Driving AI at 50,000× Real Time

This is a sponsored article brought to you by General Motors. Visit their new Engineering Blog for more insights.Autonomous driving is one of the most demanding problems in physical AI. An automated system must interpret a chaotic, ever-changing world in real time—navigating uncertainty, predicting human behavior, and…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Protecting people from harmful manipulation

Google DeepMind researches AI's harmful manipulation risks across areas like finance and health, leading to new safety measures.

Google DeepMind ·
Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more

Introducing Lyria 3 Pro, which unlocks longer tracks with structural awareness. We’re also bringing Lyria to more Google products and surfaces.

Google DeepMind ·
What Happens When You Host an AI Café

“Can I get an interview?” “Can I get a job when I graduate?” Those questions came from students during a candid discussion about artificial intelligence, capturing the anxiety many young people feel today. As companies adopt AI-driven interview screeners, restructure their workforces, and redirect billions of dollars…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Inside our approach to the Model Spec

Learn how OpenAI’s Model Spec serves as a public framework for model behavior, balancing safety, user freedom, and accountability as AI systems advance.

OpenAI ·
Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program

OpenAI launches a Safety Bug Bounty program to identify AI abuse and safety risks, including agentic vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and data exfiltration.

OpenAI ·
These AI Workstations Look Like PCs but Pack a Stronger Punch

The rise of generative AI has spurred demand for AI workstations that can run or train models on local hardware. Yet modern PCs have proven inadequate for this task. A typical laptop has only enough memory to load a large language model (LLM) with 8 billion to 13 billion parameters—much smaller, and much less intellig…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
The Coming Drone-War Inflection in Ukraine

WHEN KYIV-BORN ENGINEER Yaroslav Azhnyuk thinks about the future, his mind conjures up dystopian images. He talks about “swarms of autonomous drones carrying other autonomous drones to protect them against autonomous drones, which are trying to intercept them, controlled by AI agents overseen by a human general somewh…

IEEE Spectrum – AI ·
Update on the OpenAI Foundation

The OpenAI Foundation announces plans to invest at least $1 billion in curing diseases, economic opportunity, AI resilience, and community programs.

OpenAI ·
Powering product discovery in ChatGPT

ChatGPT introduces richer, visually immersive shopping powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling product discovery, side-by-side comparisons, and merchant integration.

OpenAI ·
How to create “humble” AI

An MIT-led team is designing artificial intelligence systems for medical diagnosis that are more collaborative and forthcoming about uncertainty.

MIT News – AI ·
On algorithms, life, and learning

Operations research expert Dimitris Bertsimas delivered the annual Killian Lecture, providing a look at the past and future of his work.

MIT News – AI ·
Will machines ever be intelligent?

Are machines truly intelligent? AI researchers Subutai Ahmad and Nicolò Fusi join Doug Burger to compare transformer-based AI with the human brain, exploring continual learning, efficiency, and whether today’s models are on a path toward human intelligence.

Microsoft Research ·
Creating with Sora Safely

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app with safety at the foundation. Our approach is anchored in concrete protections.

OpenAI ·
What’s the right path for AI?

Conference speakers discussed the unfolding trajectory of AI and the benefits of shaping technology to meet people’s needs.

MIT News – AI ·
OpenAI to acquire Astral

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano

GPT-5.4 mini and nano are smaller, faster versions of GPT-5.4 optimized for coding, tool use, multimodal reasoning, and high-volume API and sub-agent workloads.

OpenAI ·
Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report

A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false positives.

OpenAI ·
Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs

--> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and impacted humans, a step toward safer and mo…

Berkeley BAIR ·
Systematic debugging for AI agents: Introducing the AgentRx framework

As AI agents transition from simple chatbots to autonomous systems capable of managing cloud incidents, navigating complex web interfaces, and executing multi-step API workflows, a new challenge has emerged: transparency. When a human makes a mistake, we can usually trace the logic. But when an AI agent fails, perhaps…

Microsoft Research ·
Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs

IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.

OpenAI ·
New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT

ChatGPT introduces interactive visual explanations for math and science, helping students explore formulas, variables, and concepts in real time.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.

OpenAI ·
Codex Security: now in research preview

Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise.

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPT-5.4

Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.

OpenAI ·
Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons

A new preprint extends single-minus amplitudes to gravitons, with GPT-5.2 Pro helping derive and verify nonzero graviton tree amplitudes in quantum gravity.

OpenAI ·
Understanding AI and learning outcomes

OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.

OpenAI ·
Our agreement with the Department of War

Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.

OpenAI ·
Scaling AI for everyone

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership

OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI agents.

OpenAI ·
Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft

Microsoft and OpenAI continue to work closely across research, engineering, and product development, building on years of deep collaboration and shared success.

OpenAI ·
An update on our mental health-related work

OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation developments.

OpenAI ·
Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.

OpenAI ·
Arvind KC appointed Chief People Officer

OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.

OpenAI ·
Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified

SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.

OpenAI ·
Our First Proof submissions

We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems.

OpenAI ·
Advancing independent research on AI alignment

OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI for India

OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.

OpenAI ·
Introducing EVMbench

OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.

OpenAI ·
Scaling social science research

GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social scientists analyze research at scale.

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark

Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.

OpenAI ·
Accelerating science with AI and simulations

Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has spent his career applying AI to improve scientific discovery. Now he believes we are at an inflection point.

MIT News – AI ·
Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

OpenAI ·
Bringing ChatGPT to GenAI.mil

OpenAI for Government announces the deployment of a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, bringing secure, safety-forward AI to U.S. defense teams.

OpenAI ·
Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber

OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening safeguards against misuse.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI Frontier

OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance.

OpenAI ·
GPT-5.3-Codex System Card

GPT‑5.3-Codex is the most capable agentic coding model to date, combining the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex with the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT‑5.2.

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex

GPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world technical work.

OpenAI ·
The Sora feed philosophy

Discover the Sora feed philosophy—built to spark creativity, foster connections, and keep experiences safe with personalized recommendations, parental controls, and strong guardrails.

OpenAI ·
Introducing the Codex app

Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks.

OpenAI ·
Inside OpenAI’s in-house data agent

How OpenAI built an in-house AI data agent that uses GPT-5, Codex, and memory to reason over massive datasets and deliver reliable insights in minutes.

OpenAI ·
Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement⁠ of GPT‑5 (Instant, Thinking, and Pro), we will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. In the API, there are no changes at this time.

OpenAI ·
EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant

Apply for the EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant, a €500,000 program funding NGOs and researchers advancing youth safety and wellbeing in the age of AI.

OpenAI ·
The next chapter for AI in the EU

OpenAI launches the EU Economic Blueprint 2.0 with new data, partnerships, and initiatives to accelerate AI adoption, skills, and growth across Europe.

OpenAI ·
PVH reimagines the future of fashion with OpenAI

PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is adopting ChatGPT Enterprise to bring AI into fashion design, supply chain, and consumer engagement.

OpenAI ·
Introducing Prism

Prism is a free LaTeX-native workspace with GPT-5.2 built in, helping researchers write, collaborate, and reason in one place.

OpenAI ·
Unrolling the Codex agent loop

A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.

OpenAI ·
Inside GPT-5 for Work: How Businesses Use GPT-5

A data-driven report on how workers across industries use ChatGPT—covering adoption trends, top tasks, departmental patterns, and the future of AI at work.

OpenAI ·
Introducing Edu for Countries

Edu for Countries is a new OpenAI initiative helping governments use AI to modernize education systems and build future-ready workforces.

OpenAI ·
How countries can end the capability overhang

Our latest report reveals stark differences in advanced AI adoption across countries and outlines new initiatives to help nations capture productivity gains from AI.

OpenAI ·
Horizon 1000: Advancing AI for primary healthcare

OpenAI and the Gates Foundation launch Horizon 1000, a $50M pilot advancing AI capabilities for healthcare in Africa. The initiative aims to reach 1,000 clinics by 2028.

OpenAI ·
Stargate Community

Stargate Community plans detail a community-first approach to AI infrastructure, using locally tailored plans shaped by community input, energy needs, and workforce priorities.

OpenAI ·
Our approach to age prediction

ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time.

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT Go, now available worldwide

ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide, offering expanded access to GPT-5.2 Instant, higher usage limits, and longer memory—making advanced AI more affordable globally.

OpenAI ·
Investing in Merge Labs

OpenAI is investing in Merge Labs to support new brain computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and experience.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI partners with Cerebras

OpenAI partners with Cerebras to add 750MW of high-speed AI compute, reducing inference latency and making ChatGPT faster for real-time AI workloads.

OpenAI ·
Zenken boosts a lean sales team with ChatGPT Enterprise

By rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise company-wide, Zenken has boosted sales performance, cut preparation time, and increased proposal success rates. AI-supported workflows are helping a lean team deliver more personalized, effective customer engagement.

OpenAI ·
Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems

An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects. Many imaging systems produce measurements that humans never see or cannot interpret…

Berkeley BAIR ·
OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy

OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy to develop multi-gigawatt AI data center campuses, including a 1.2 GW Texas facility supporting the Stargate initiative.

OpenAI ·
Datadog uses Codex for system-level code review

OpenAI and Datadog brand graphic with the OpenAI wordmark on the left, the Datadog logo on the right, and a central abstract brown fur-like texture panel on a white background.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI for Healthcare

OpenAI for Healthcare enables secure, enterprise-grade AI that supports HIPAA compliance—reducing administrative burden and supporting clinical workflows.

OpenAI ·
How Tolan builds voice-first AI with GPT-5.1

Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, combining low-latency responses, real-time context reconstruction, and memory-driven personalities for natural conversations.

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT Health

ChatGPT Health is a dedicated experience that securely connects your health data and apps, with privacy protections and a physician-informed design.

OpenAI ·
Announcing OpenAI Grove Cohort 2

Applications are now open for OpenAI Grove Cohort 2, a 5-week founder program designed for individuals at any stage, from pre-idea to product. Participants receive $50K in API credits, early access to AI tools, and hands-on mentorship from the OpenAI team.

OpenAI ·
One in a million: celebrating the customers shaping AI’s future

More than one million customers around the world now use OpenAI to empower their teams and unlock new opportunities. This post highlights how companies like PayPal, Virgin Atlantic, BBVA, Cisco, Moderna, and Canva are transforming the way work gets done with AI.

OpenAI ·
Continuously hardening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection

OpenAI is strengthening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection attacks using automated red teaming trained with reinforcement learning. This proactive discover-and-patch loop helps identify novel exploits early and harden the browser agent’s defenses as AI becomes more agentic.

OpenAI ·
Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability

OpenAI introduces a new framework and evaluation suite for chain-of-thought monitorability, covering 13 evaluations across 24 environments. Our findings show that monitoring a model’s internal reasoning is far more effective than monitoring outputs alone, offering a promising path toward scalable control as AI systems…

OpenAI ·
Deepening our collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy

OpenAI and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen collaboration on AI and advanced computing in support of scientific discovery. The agreement builds on ongoing work with national laboratories and helps establish a framework for applying AI to high-impact research across the…

OpenAI ·
AI literacy resources for teens and parents

OpenAI shares new AI literacy resources to help teens and parents use ChatGPT thoughtfully, safely, and with confidence. The guides include expert-vetted tips for responsible use, critical thinking, healthy boundaries, and supporting teens through emotional or sensitive topics.

OpenAI ·
Updating our Model Spec with teen protections

OpenAI is updating its Model Spec with new Under-18 Principles that define how ChatGPT should support teens with safe, age-appropriate guidance grounded in developmental science. The update strengthens guardrails, clarifies expected model behavior in higher-risk situations, and builds on our broader work to improve te…

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex

GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.

OpenAI ·
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, and publishers as…

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
Staying ahead in the age of AI

Discover how leaders can build AI-ready organizations using clear strategy, training, governance, and accelerated innovation.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
As AI Grows More Complex, Model Builders Rely on NVIDIA

Unveiling what it describes as the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work, OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 in December. The model was trained and deployed on NVIDIA infrastructure, including NVIDIA Hopper and GB200 NVL72 systems. GPT-5.3 Codex — the first OpenAI agentic coding model to help build itself…

NVIDIA AI ·
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 mathematical proofs.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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 information that is pu…

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
Launching our first OpenAI Certifications courses

Learn how OpenAI’s new certifications and AI Foundations courses help people build real-world AI skills, boost career opportunities, and prepare for the future of work.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI appoints Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer

Denise Dresser is joining as Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing OpenAI’s global revenue strategy across enterprise and customer success. She will help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations as OpenAI continues to scale.

OpenAI ·
Bringing powerful AI to millions across Europe with Deutsche Telekom

OpenAI is collaborating with Deutsche Telekom to bring advanced, multilingual AI experiences to millions of people across Europe. ChatGPT Enterprise will also be deployed to help employees at Deutsche Telekom improve workflows and accelerate innovation.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI for Australia

OpenAI is launching OpenAI for Australia to build sovereign AI infrastructure, upskill more than 1.5 million workers, and accelerate innovation across the country’s growing AI ecosystem.

OpenAI ·
How confessions can keep language models honest

OpenAI researchers are testing “confessions,” a method that trains models to admit when they make mistakes or act undesirably, helping improve AI honesty, transparency, and trust in model outputs.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI to acquire Neptune

OpenAI is acquiring Neptune to deepen visibility into model behavior and strengthen the tools researchers use to track experiments and monitor training.

OpenAI ·
Announcing the initial People-First AI Fund grantees

The OpenAI Foundation announces the initial recipients of the People-First AI Fund, awarding $40.5M in unrestricted grants to 208 nonprofits supporting community innovation and opportunity.

OpenAI ·
Inside Mirakl's agentic commerce vision

Mirakl is redefining commerce through AI agents and ChatGPT Enterprise—achieving faster documentation, smarter customer support, and building toward agent-native commerce with Mirakl Nexus.

OpenAI ·
Funding grants for new research into AI and mental health

OpenAI is awarding up to $2 million in grants for research at the intersection of AI and mental health. The program supports projects that study real-world risks, benefits, and applications to improve safety and well-being.

OpenAI ·
Mixpanel security incident: what OpenAI users need to know

OpenAI shares details about a Mixpanel security incident involving limited API analytics data. No API content, credentials, or payment details were exposed. Learn what happened and how we’re protecting users.

OpenAI ·
AlphaFold: Five years of impact

Explore how AlphaFold has accelerated science and fueled a global wave of biological discovery.

Google DeepMind ·
Our approach to mental health-related litigation

We’re sharing our approach to mental health-related litigation. O handle sensitive cases with care, transparency, and respect while continuing to strengthen safety and support in ChatGPT.

OpenAI ·
Introducing shopping research in ChatGPT

Shopping research in ChatGPT helps you explore, compare, and discover products with personalized buyer’s guides that simplify decision-making

OpenAI ·
Helping 1,000 small businesses build with AI

OpenAI is partnering with DoorDash, SCORE, and local organizations to help 1,000 small businesses build with AI. The Small Business AI Jam gives Main Street business owners hands-on tools and training to compete and grow.

OpenAI ·
Early experiments in accelerating science with GPT-5

OpenAI introduces the first research cases showing how GPT-5 accelerates scientific progress across math, physics, biology, and computer science. Explore how AI and researchers collaborate to generate proofs, uncover new insights, and reshape the pace of discovery.

OpenAI ·
Strengthening our safety ecosystem with external testing

OpenAI works with independent experts to evaluate frontier AI systems. Third-party testing strengthens safety, validates safeguards, and increases transparency in how we assess model capabilities and risks.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI and Target team up on new AI-powered experiences

OpenAI and Target are partnering to bring a new Target app to ChatGPT, offering personalized shopping and faster checkout. Target will also expand its use of ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity and guest experiences.

OpenAI ·
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max System Card

This system card outlines the comprehensive safety measures implemented for GPT‑5.1-CodexMax. It details both model-level mitigations, such as specialized safety training for harmful tasks and prompt injections, and product-level mitigations like agent sandboxing and configurable network access.

OpenAI ·
Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

Introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a faster, more intelligent agentic coding model for Codex. The model is designed for long-running, project-scale work with enhanced reasoning and token efficiency.

OpenAI ·
A free version of ChatGPT built for teachers

ChatGPT for Teachers is a secure workspace with education‑grade privacy and admin controls. Free for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2027.

OpenAI ·
Intuit and OpenAI join forces on new AI-powered experiences

OpenAI and Intuit have entered a $100M+ multi-year partnership to launch Intuit app experiences in ChatGPT and expand Intuit’s use of OpenAI’s frontier models to power personalized financial tools.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI named Emerging Leader in Generative AI

OpenAI has been named an Emerging Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Innovation Guide for Generative AI Model Providers. The recognition reflects our enterprise momentum, with over 1 million companies building with ChatGPT.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI for Ireland

OpenAI launches OpenAI for Ireland, partnering with the Irish Government, Dogpatch Labs and Patch to help SMEs, founders and young builders use AI to innovate, boost productivity and build the next generation of Irish tech startups.

OpenAI ·
Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits

OpenAI is exploring mechanistic interpretability to understand how neural networks reason. Our new sparse model approach could make AI systems more transparent and support safer, more reliable behavior.

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers

GPT-5.1 is now available in the API, bringing faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding performance, and new apply_patch and shell tools.

OpenAI ·
GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.

OpenAI ·
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.

Google DeepMind ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
RL without TD learning

In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to long-horizon tasks. We can do Reinforcement Le…

Berkeley BAIR ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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 safety evaluations o…

OpenAI ·
Built to benefit everyone

OpenAI’s recapitalization strengthens mission-focused governance, expanding resources to ensure AI benefits everyone while advancing innovation responsibly.

OpenAI ·
Seizing the AI opportunity

Meeting the demands of the Intelligence Age will require strategic investment in energy and infrastructure. OpenAI’s submission to the White House details how expanding capacity and workforce readiness can sustain U.S. leadership in AI and economic growth.

OpenAI ·
Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations

OpenAI collaborated with 170+ mental health experts to improve ChatGPT’s ability to recognize distress, respond empathetically, and guide users toward real-world support—reducing unsafe responses by up to 80%. Learn how we’re making ChatGPT safer and more supportive in sensitive moments.

OpenAI ·
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now ready for scaled production use

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, previously in preview, is now stable and generally available. This cost-efficient model provides high quality in a small size, and includes 2.5 family features like a 1 million-token context window and multimodality.

Google DeepMind ·
Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past

Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.

Google DeepMind ·
Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real time at 24 frames per second, retaining consistency for a few minutes at a resolution of 720p.

Google DeepMind ·
Try Deep Think in the Gemini app

We're rolling out Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, and we're giving select mathematicians access to the full version of the Gemini 2.5 Deep Think model entered into the IMO competition.

Google DeepMind ·
Rethinking how we measure AI intelligence

Game Arena is a new, open-source platform for rigorous evaluation of AI models. It allows for head-to-head comparison of frontier systems in environments with clear winning conditions.

Google DeepMind ·
Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

Available in preview via the API, our Computer Use model is a specialized model built on Gemini 2.5 Pro’s capabilities to power agents that can interact with user interfaces.

Google DeepMind ·
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky

OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky—a natural language interface for Mac that brings AI directly into your desktop experience. Together, we’re integrating Sky’s deep macOS capabilities into ChatGPT to make AI more intuitive, contextual, and action-oriented.

OpenAI ·
Consensus accelerates research with GPT-5 and Responses API

Consensus uses GPT-5 and OpenAI’s Responses API to power a multi-agent research assistant that reads, analyzes, and synthesizes evidence in minutes—helping over 8 million researchers accelerate scientific discovery.

OpenAI ·
Work smarter with your company knowledge in ChatGPT

Company knowledge brings context from your apps into ChatGPT for answers specific to your business, with clear citations, security, privacy, and admin controls. Available now for Business, Enterprise, and Edu users.

OpenAI ·
The next chapter for UK sovereign AI

OpenAI expands its UK partnership with a new Ministry of Justice agreement, bringing ChatGPT to civil servants. It also introduces UK data residency for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the API Platform to support trusted and secure AI adoption.

OpenAI ·
AI in Japan—OpenAI’s Japan Economic Blueprint

OpenAI’s Japan Economic Blueprint outlines how Japan can harness AI to boost innovation, strengthen competitiveness, and enable sustainable, inclusive growth.

OpenAI ·
Continue your ChatGPT experience beyond WhatsApp

ChatGPT will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, 2026. Learn how to link your ChatGPT account and continue your conversations across devices.

OpenAI ·
Expert Council on Well-Being and AI

OpenAI’s new Expert Council on Well-Being and AI brings together leading psychologists, clinicians, and researchers to guide how ChatGPT supports emotional health, especially for teens. Learn how their insights are shaping safer, more caring AI experiences.

OpenAI ·
Argentina’s AI opportunity

OpenAI and Sur Energy are exploring Argentina’s first Stargate project—an AI and clean energy collaboration that could make Argentina a Latin American leader in artificial intelligence, sustainable infrastructure, and digital innovation.

OpenAI ·
HiBob turns 2,500 GPTs into product and team growth

Discover how HiBob uses ChatGPT Enterprise and custom GPTs to scale AI adoption, boost revenue, streamline HR workflows, and deliver AI-powered features in the Bob platform.

OpenAI ·
Disrupting malicious uses of AI: October 2025

Discover how OpenAI is detecting and disrupting malicious uses of AI in our October 2025 report. Learn how we’re countering misuse, enforcing policies, and protecting users from real-world harms.

OpenAI ·
Codex is now generally available

OpenAI Codex is now generally available with powerful new features for developers: a Slack integration, Codex SDK, and admin tools like usage dashboards and workspace management—making Codex easier to use and manage at scale.

OpenAI ·
Introducing apps in ChatGPT and the new Apps SDK

We’re introducing a new generation of apps you can chat with, right inside ChatGPT. Developers can start building them today with the new Apps SDK, available in preview.

OpenAI ·
Introducing AgentKit, new Evals, and RFT for agents

Today, we’re releasing new tools to help developers go from prototype to production faster: AgentKit, expanded evals capabilities, and reinforcement fine-tuning for agents.

OpenAI ·
Accelerating AI adoption in Europe

OpenAI and Allied for Startups release the Hacktivate AI report with 20 actionable policy ideas to accelerate AI adoption in Europe, boost competitiveness, and empower innovators.

OpenAI ·
Launching Sora responsibly

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app with safety at the foundation. Our approach is anchored in concrete protections.

OpenAI ·
Sora 2 System Card

Sora 2 is our new state of the art video and audio generation model. Building on the foundation of Sora, this new model introduces capabilities that have been difficult for prior video models to achieve– such as more accurate physics, sharper realism, synchronized audio, enhanced steerability, and an expanded stylisti…

OpenAI ·
Sora 2 is here

Our latest video generation model is more physically accurate, realistic, and controllable than prior systems. It also features synchronized dialogue and sound effects. Create with it in the new Sora app.

OpenAI ·
Building OpenAI with OpenAI

At OpenAI, we rely on our own technology to help streamline work, scale expertise, and drive outcomes. In our new series, OpenAI on OpenAI, we share lessons to help other organizations do the same.

OpenAI ·
Introducing parental controls

We’re rolling out parental controls and a new parent resource page to help families guide how ChatGPT works in their homes.

OpenAI ·
Combating online child sexual exploitation & abuse

Discover how OpenAI combats online child sexual exploitation and abuse with strict usage policies, advanced detection tools, and industry collaboration to block, report, and prevent AI misuse.

OpenAI ·
Partnering with AARP to help keep older adults safe online

OpenAI and AARP are partnering to help older adults stay safe online with new AI training, scam-spotting tools, and nationwide programs through OpenAI Academy and OATS’s Senior Planet initiative.

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT Pulse

Today we're releasing a preview of ChatGPT Pulse to Pro users on mobile. Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.

OpenAI ·
CNA is transforming its newsroom with AI

In this Executive Function series from OpenAI, discover how CNA is transforming its newsroom with AI. Editor-in-Chief Walter Fernandez shares insights on AI adoption, culture, and the future of journalism.

OpenAI ·
SchoolAI builds an AI platform that empowers teachers

SchoolAI uses GPT-4.1, image generation, and TTS to power safe, teacher-guided AI tools for over 1 million classrooms, improving engagement, oversight, and personalized learning.

OpenAI ·
Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models

Apollo Research and OpenAI developed evaluations for hidden misalignment (“scheming”) and found behaviors consistent with scheming in controlled tests across frontier models. The team shared concrete examples and stress tests of an early method to reduce scheming.

OpenAI ·
Building towards age prediction

Learn how OpenAI is building age prediction and parental controls in ChatGPT to create safer, age-appropriate experiences for teens while supporting families with new tools.

OpenAI ·
Introducing upgrades to Codex

Codex just got faster, more reliable, and better at real-time collaboration and tackling tasks independently anywhere you develop—whether via the terminal, IDE, web, or even your phone.

OpenAI ·
How people are using ChatGPT

New research from the largest study of ChatGPT use shows how the tool creates economic value through both personal and professional use. Adoption is broadening beyond early users, closing gaps and making AI a part of everyday life.

OpenAI ·
Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex

This addendum to the GPT-5 system card shares a new model: GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 further optimized for agentic coding in Codex. GPT-5-Codex adjusts its thinking effort more dynamically based on task complexity, responding quickly to simple conversational queries or small tasks, while independently working fo…

OpenAI ·
Reaching Across the Isles: UK-LLM Brings AI to UK Languages With NVIDIA Nemotron

Celtic languages — including Cornish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh — are the U.K.’s oldest living languages. To empower their speakers, the UK-LLM sovereign AI initiative is building an AI model based on NVIDIA Nemotron that can reason in both English and Welsh, a language spoken by about 850,000 people in Wales t…

NVIDIA AI ·
Statement on OpenAI’s Nonprofit and PBC

OpenAI reaffirms its nonprofit leadership with a new structure granting equity in its PBC, enabling over $100B in resources to advance safe, beneficial AI for humanity.

OpenAI ·
A People-First AI Fund: $50M to support nonprofits

Applications are now open for OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund, a $50M initiative supporting U.S. nonprofits advancing education, community innovation, and economic opportunity. Apply by October 8, 2025, for unrestricted grants that help communities shape AI for the public good.

OpenAI ·
Why language models hallucinate

OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI and Greek Government launch ‘OpenAI for Greece’

OpenAI and the Greek Government have launched “OpenAI for Greece” to bring ChatGPT Edu into secondary schools and support responsible AI learning. This partnership aims to boost AI literacy, fuel local start-ups, and drive national economic growth.

OpenAI ·
Expanding economic opportunity with AI

OpenAI is launching a Jobs Platform and new Certifications to connect workers with jobs, training, and certifications. Learn how we’re expanding economic opportunity and making AI skills more accessible.

OpenAI ·
What exactly does word2vec learn?

What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec is a well-known precursor to modern language models, for many years, researchers lacked a quantitative and predictive t…

Berkeley BAIR ·
Supporting nonprofit and community innovation

OpenAI launches a $50M People-First AI Fund to help U.S. nonprofits scale impact with AI. Applications open Sept 8–Oct 8, 2025 for grants in education, healthcare, research, and more.

OpenAI ·
Collective alignment: public input on our Model Spec

OpenAI surveyed over 1,000 people worldwide on how AI should behave and compared their views to our Model Spec. Learn how collective alignment is shaping AI defaults to better reflect diverse human values and perspectives.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a joint safety evaluation

OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a first-of-its-kind joint safety evaluation, testing each other’s models for misalignment, instruction following, hallucinations, jailbreaking, and more—highlighting progress, challenges, and the value of cross-lab collaboration.

OpenAI ·
Helping people when they need it most

How we think about safety for users experiencing mental or emotional distress, the limits of today’s systems, and the work underway to refine them.

OpenAI ·
Accelerating life sciences research

Discover how a specialized AI model, GPT-4b micro, helped OpenAI and Retro Bio engineer more effective proteins for stem cell therapy and longevity research.

OpenAI ·
Scaling domain expertise in complex, regulated domains

Discover how Blue J is transforming tax research with AI-powered tools built on GPT-4.1. By combining domain expertise with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Blue J delivers fast, accurate, and fully-cited tax answers—trusted by professionals across the US, Canada, and the UK.

OpenAI ·
Mixi reimagines communication with ChatGPT

Discover how MIXI, a leader in digital entertainment and lifestyle services in Japan, uses ChatGPT Enterprise to transform productivity, boost AI adoption across teams, and create a secure environment for innovation.

OpenAI ·
Q&A with DoorDash’s CPO, Mariana Garavaglia

Learn how DoorDash is scaling AI adoption to empower employees to build, learn, and innovate faster in a conversation with Chief People Officer Mariana Garavaglia.

OpenAI ·
Applications Now Open for $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards

Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such innovation, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides grants, mentors and technical support to doctoral students doi…

NVIDIA AI ·
Scaling accounting capacity with OpenAI

Built with OpenAI o3, o3-Pro, GPT-4.1, and GPT-5, Basis’ AI agents help accounting firms save up to 30% of their time and expand capacity for advisory and growth.

OpenAI ·
NVIDIA Research Shapes Physical AI

AI and graphics research breakthroughs in neural rendering, 3D generation and world simulation power robotics, autonomous vehicles and content creation.

NVIDIA AI ·
Introducing GPT-5 for developers

Introducing GPT-5 in our API platform—offering high reasoning performance, new controls for devs, and best-in-class results on real coding tasks.

OpenAI ·
GPT-5 and the new era of work

GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced model—transforming enterprise AI, automation, and workforce productivity in the new era of intelligent work.

OpenAI ·
First look at GPT-5

See how a group of leading developers use GPT-5 for the first time.

OpenAI ·
GPT-5 System Card

This GPT-5 system card explains how a unified model routing system powers fast and smart responses using gpt-5-main, gpt-5-thinking, and lightweight versions like gpt-5-thinking-nano, optimized for different tasks and developer use.

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPT-5

We are introducing GPT‑5, our best AI system yet. GPT‑5 is a significant leap in intelligence over all our previous models, featuring state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, visual perception, and more.

OpenAI ·
Providing ChatGPT to the Entire U.S. Federal Workforce

Today, OpenAI for Government is announcing a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to launch a transformative initiative. For the next year, ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to the entire federal executive branch workforce at essentially no cost.

OpenAI ·
gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card

We introduce gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two open-weight reasoning models available under the Apache 2.0 license and our gpt-oss usage policy.

OpenAI ·
Open Weights and AI for All

AI’s next frontier isn’t just about capability—it’s about who gets to use it. Our mission to put AI in the hands of as many people as possible is what drives us. Today’s release of our most capable open-weights models is a major step forward that makes advanced AI more open, flexible, and accessible worldwide.

OpenAI ·
Estimating worst case frontier risks of open weight LLMs

In this paper, we study the worst-case frontier risks of releasing gpt-oss. We introduce malicious fine-tuning (MFT), where we attempt to elicit maximum capabilities by fine-tuning gpt-oss to be as capable as possible in two domains: biology and cybersecurity.

OpenAI ·
Introducing gpt-oss

We’re releasing gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—two state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. Available under the flexible Apache 2.0 license, these models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks, demonstrate strong tool use capabilities, and ar…

OpenAI ·
What we’re optimizing ChatGPT for

We build ChatGPT to help you thrive in all the ways you want. Learn how we're improving support for tough moments, have rolled out reminders to take breaks, and are working on better life advice, all guided by expert input.

OpenAI ·
Figma uses AI to transform digital design

Discover how Figma is transforming digital design with AI. David Kossnick shares how tools like Figma Make empower teams to prototype, collaborate, and build with AI—reshaping workflows for designers, developers, and non-technical creators alike.

OpenAI ·
Introducing Stargate Norway

We’re launching Stargate Norway—OpenAI’s first AI data center initiative in Europe under our OpenAI for Countries program. Stargate is OpenAI’s overarching infrastructure platform and is a critical part of our long-term vision to deliver the benefits of AI to everyone.

OpenAI ·
Introducing study mode in ChatGPT

Introducing study mode in ChatGPT, a new learning experience that helps you work through problems step by step, guiding students with questions, scaffolding, and feedback for deeper learning.

OpenAI ·
Announcing OpenAI DevDay 2025

We’re hosting our third annual OpenAI DevDay on October 6, 2025 at Fort Mason in San Francisco.

OpenAI ·
Stargate advances with 4.5 GW partnership with Oracle

Oracle and OpenAI have entered an agreement to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the U.S. This investment will create new jobs, accelerate America’s reindustrialization, and help advance U.S. AI leadership. It also marks a major milestone for Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure plat…

OpenAI ·
OpenAI’s new economic analysis

Analysis provides insights into ChatGPT’s impact on the economy. OpenAI also launches new research collaboration to study AI’s broader effects on the labor market and productivity.

OpenAI ·
AI as the greatest source of empowerment for all

I’ve always considered myself a pragmatic technologist—someone who loves technology not for its own sake, but for the direct impact it can have on people’s lives. That’s what makes this job so exciting, since I believe AI will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history. If we get th…

OpenAI ·
A $50 million fund to build with communities

OpenAI is launching an initial $50 million fund that supports nonprofit and community organizations, informed by the independent OpenAI Nonprofit Commission report.

OpenAI ·
ChatGPT agent System Card

ChatGPT agent System Card: OpenAI’s agentic model unites research, browser automation, and code tools with safeguards under the Preparedness Framework.

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT agent

Introducing ChatGPT agent: it thinks and acts, using tools to complete tasks like research, bookings, and slideshows—all with your guidance.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI nonprofit jam

At OpenAI, we build tools to help people solve hard problems—including nonprofits working on the frontlines of their communities. The OpenAI Academy is teaming up with the Walton Family Foundation, Emerson Collective, and a network of local nonprofit organizations to host the Nonprofit Jam—a one-day, nationwide event…

OpenAI ·
Intellectual freedom by design

ChatGPT is designed to be useful, trustworthy, and adaptable—so you can make it your own.

OpenAI ·
A Gaming GPU Helps Crack the Code on a Thousand-Year Cultural Conversation

Ceramics — the humble mix of earth, fire and artistry — have been part of a global conversation for millennia. From Tang Dynasty trade routes to Renaissance palaces, from museum vitrines to high-stakes auction floors, they’ve carried culture across borders, evolving into status symbols, commodities and pieces of conte…

NVIDIA AI ·
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

× Predicting Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA). Given past video frames and an action specifying a desired change in 3D pose, PEVA predicts the next video frame. Our results show that, given the first frame and a sequence of actions, our model can generate videos of atomic actions (a), simulate counter…

Berkeley BAIR ·
AI in Australia—OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint

Today, OpenAI, in partnership with Mandala Partners, is sharing the OpenAI AI Economic Blueprint for Australia. At a time when boosting productivity has emerged as a national priority for Australia, the Blueprint provides a clear, actionable plan for how Australia can unlock the full economic and social potential of a…

OpenAI ·
Customizable, no-code voice agent automation with GPT-4o

Retell AI is transforming the call center with AI voice automation powered by GPT-4o and GPT-4.1. Its no-code platform enables businesses to launch natural, real-time voice agents that cut call costs, boost CSAT, and automate customer conversations—without scripts or hold times.

OpenAI ·
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome

Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API.

Google DeepMind ·
Driving scalable growth with OpenAI o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA

Unify, an AI-powered GTM platform, uses OpenAI’s o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA to automate prospecting, research, and outreach. With hyper-personalized messaging and an always-on workflow, Unify helps teams generate pipeline at scale while focusing on high-impact customer interactions.

OpenAI ·
Preparing for future AI risks in biology

Advanced AI can transform biology and medicine—but also raises biosecurity risks. We’re proactively assessing capabilities and implementing safeguards to prevent misuse.

OpenAI ·
Gemini 2.5: Updates to our family of thinking models

Explore the latest Gemini 2.5 model updates with enhanced performance and accuracy: Gemini 2.5 Pro now stable, Flash generally available, and the new Flash-Lite in preview.

Google DeepMind ·
Introducing OpenAI for Government

We’re launching OpenAI for Government, a new initiative focused on bringing our most advanced AI tools to public servants across the United States. We're supporting the U.S. government's efforts in adopting best-in-class technology and deploying these tools in service of the public good.

OpenAI ·
Bringing the magic of AI to Mattel’s iconic brands

OpenAI and Mattel are partnering to integrate AI into iconic brands such as Barbie and Hot Wheels, aiming to enhance creative development, streamline workflows, and create new ways for fans to engage.

OpenAI ·
NVIDIA CEO Drops the Blueprint for Europe’s AI Boom

At GTC Paris — held alongside VivaTech, Europe’s largest tech event — NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered a clear message: Europe isn’t just adopting AI — it’s building it. “We now have a new industry, an AI industry, and it’s now part of the new infrastructure, called intelligence infrastructure, that will…

NVIDIA AI ·
NVIDIA Releases New AI Models and Developer Tools to Advance Autonomous Vehicle Ecosystem

Autonomous vehicle (AV) stacks are evolving from many distinct models to a unified, end-to-end architecture that executes driving actions directly from sensor data. This transition to using larger models is drastically increasing the demand for high-quality, physically based sensor data for training, testing and valid…

NVIDIA AI ·
Scaling security with responsible disclosure

OpenAI introduces its Outbound Coordinated Disclosure Policy to guide how it responsibly reports vulnerabilities in third-party software—emphasizing integrity, collaboration, and proactive security at scale.

OpenAI ·
Shipping code faster with o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1

CodeRabbit uses OpenAI models to revolutionize code reviews—boosting accuracy, accelerating PR merges, and helping developers ship faster with fewer bugs and higher ROI.

OpenAI ·
Introducing Stargate UAE

We’re launching Stargate UAE – the first international deployment of Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform.

OpenAI ·
Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent models are getting even better

Gemini 2.5 Pro continues to be loved by developers as the best model for coding, and 2.5 Flash is getting even better with a new update. We’re bringing new capabilities to our models, including Deep Think, an experimental enhanced reasoning mode for 2.5 Pro.

Google DeepMind ·
Announcing Gemma 3n preview: Powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI

Gemma 3n is a cutting-edge open model designed for fast, multimodal AI on devices, featuring optimized performance, unique flexibility with a 2-in-1 model, and expanded multimodal understanding with audio, empowering developers to build live, interactive applications and sophisticated audio-centric experiences.

Google DeepMind ·
Addendum to o3 and o4-mini system card: Codex

Codex is a cloud-based coding agent. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of OpenAI o3 optimized for software engineering. codex-1 was trained using reinforcement learning on real-world coding tasks in a variety of environments to generate code that closely mirrors human style and PR preferences, adheres precisely t…

OpenAI ·
Introducing HealthBench

HealthBench is a new evaluation benchmark for AI in healthcare which evaluates models in realistic scenarios. Built with input from 250+ physicians, it aims to provide a shared standard for model performance and safety in health.

OpenAI ·
Introducing data residency in Asia

Data residency builds on OpenAI’s enterprise-grade data privacy, security, and compliance programs supporting customers worldwide.

OpenAI ·
Lowe’s puts project expertise into every hand

Lowe’s partnered with OpenAI to build Mylow and Mylow Companion, AI-powered tools that bring expert help to both customers and store associates—making complex home improvement projects easier to plan, navigate, and complete.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI for Countries

A new initiative to support countries around the world that want to build on democratic AI rails.

OpenAI ·
Introducing AI stories: daily benefits shine a light on bigger opportunities

Sam Altman has written that we are entering the Intelligence Age, a time when AI will help people become dramatically more capable. The biggest problems of today—across science, medicine, education, national defense—will no longer seem intractable, but will in fact be solvable. New horizons of possibility and prosperi…

OpenAI ·
AI helps John Deere transform agriculture

John Deere’s Justin Rose talks about transforming agriculture with AI and shares how the company is scaling innovation to help farmers work smarter, more efficiently, and sustainably.

OpenAI ·
Evolving OpenAI’s structure

An update from the OpenAI board on transitioning its for-profit entity to a Public Benefit Corporation, reinforcing its mission-driven structure under nonprofit oversight while enabling greater impact and long-term alignment with the public good.

OpenAI ·
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Hugging Face ·
New in ChatGPT for Business: April 2025

Watch hands-on demos of the lastest in ChatGPT for Business: o3, image generation, enhanced memory, and internal knowledge.

OpenAI ·
Introducing our latest image generation model in the API

Our latest image generation model is now available in the API via ‘gpt-image-1’—enabling developers and businesses to build professional-grade, customizable visuals directly into their own tools and platforms.

OpenAI ·
Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash is our first fully hybrid reasoning model, giving developers the ability to turn thinking on or off.

Google DeepMind ·
OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card

OpenAI o3 and OpenAI o4-mini combine state-of-the-art reasoning with full tool capabilities—web browsing, Python, image and file analysis, image generation, canvas, automations, file search, and memory.

OpenAI ·
Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2

Transform text-based prompts into high-resolution eight-second videos in Gemini Advanced and use Whisk Animate to turn images into eight-second animated clips.

Google DeepMind ·
Our updated Preparedness Framework

Sharing our updated framework for measuring and protecting against severe harm from frontier AI capabilities.

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API

Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API—a new family of models with across-the-board improvements, including major gains in coding, instruction following, and long-context understanding. We’re also releasing our first nano model. Available to developers worldwide starting today.

OpenAI ·
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an important moment of recognition for the of AI role in biology. What comes next after protein fol…

Berkeley BAIR ·
OpenAI’s EU Economic Blueprint

Today, OpenAI is sharing the EU Economic Blueprint—a set of proposals to help Europe seize the promise of artificial intelligence, drive sustainable economic growth across the region, and ensure that AI is developed and deployed by Europe, in Europe, for Europe.

OpenAI ·
Taking a responsible path to AGI

We’re exploring the frontiers of AGI, prioritizing technical safety, proactive risk assessment, and collaboration with the AI community.

Google DeepMind ·
New funding to build towards AGI

Today we’re announcing new funding—$40B at a $300B post-money valuation, which enables us to push the frontiers of AI research even further, scale our compute infrastructure, and deliver increasingly powerful tools for the 500 million people who use ChatGPT every week.

OpenAI ·
Security on the path to AGI

At OpenAI, we proactively adapt, including by building comprehensive security measures directly into our infrastructure and models.

OpenAI ·
Introducing 4o Image Generation

At OpenAI, we have long believed image generation should be a primary capability of our language models. That’s why we’ve built our most advanced image generator yet into GPT‑4o. The result—image generation that is not only beautiful, but useful.

OpenAI ·
Addendum to GPT-4o System Card: 4o image generation

4o image generation is a new, significantly more capable image generation approach than our earlier DALL·E 3 series of models. It can create photorealistic output. It can take images as inputs and transform them.

OpenAI ·
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those frustrating slowdowns and speedups that usually have no clear…

Berkeley BAIR ·
Leadership updates

OpenAI has grown a lot. We remain focused on the same core—pursuing frontier AI research that accelerates human progress–but we now also deliver products used by hundreds of millions of people.

OpenAI ·
Personalizing travel at scale with OpenAI

By integrating its data systems with OpenAI’s LLMs, Booking.com delivers smarter search, faster support, and intent-driven travel experiences.

OpenAI ·
Introducing next-generation audio models in the API

For the first time, developers can also instruct the text-to-speech model to speak in a specific way—for example, “talk like a sympathetic customer service agent”—unlocking a new level of customization for voice agents.

OpenAI ·
New in ChatGPT for Business: March 2025

Join us as we share our latest releases and how ChatGPT is becoming more interactive, customized to the way your teams work, and agentic.

OpenAI ·
Introducing Gemma 3

The most capable model you can run on a single GPU or TPU.

Google DeepMind ·
Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models

Frontier reasoning models exploit loopholes when given the chance. We show we can detect exploits using an LLM to monitor their chains-of-thought. Penalizing their “bad thoughts” doesn’t stop the majority of misbehavior—it makes them hide their intent.

OpenAI ·
Introducing NextGenAI

OpenAI commits $50M in funding and tools to leading institutions.

OpenAI ·
1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session

OpenAI and nine national labs bring together leading scientists for first-of-its kind event.

OpenAI ·
Supporting sellers with enhanced product listings

Mercari leverages GPT-4o mini and GPT-4 to streamline selling, enhance product listings, and boost sales, transforming the online marketplace with features like AI Listing Support and Mercari AI Assistant.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI GPT-4.5 System Card

We’re releasing a research preview of OpenAI GPT‑4.5, our largest and most knowledgeable model yet.

OpenAI ·
Deep research System Card

This report outlines the safety work carried out prior to releasing deep research including external red teaming, frontier risk evaluations according to our Preparedness Framework, and an overview of the mitigations we built in to address key risk areas.

OpenAI ·
Estonia and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to schools nationwide

Estonia and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to schools nationwide. OpenAI will work with the Estonian Government to provide students and teachers in the secondary school system with access to ChatGPT Edu.

OpenAI ·
Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

Scientists everywhere can now access Evo 2, a powerful new foundation model that understands the genetic code for all domains of life. Unveiled today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organi…

NVIDIA AI ·
What Are Foundation Models?

Editor’s note: This article, originally published on March 13, 2023, has been updated. The mics were live and tape was rolling in the studio where the Miles Davis Quintet was recording dozens of tunes in 1956 for Prestige Records. When an engineer asked for the next song’s title, Davis shot back, “I’ll play it, and [&…

NVIDIA AI ·
Introducing the Intelligence Age

We aired our first-ever television ad during the Super Bowl to pique people’s curiosity and help us all realize how AI can open up new possibilities for us, create more fulfillment in our lives, and make us more productive, just as all the tools that came before AI did for those who came before us.

OpenAI ·
Introducing data residency in Europe

Data residency builds on OpenAI’s enterprise-grade data privacy, security, and compliance programs supporting customers worldwide.

OpenAI ·
Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

We’re announcing new updates to Gemini 2.0 Flash, plus introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.

Google DeepMind ·
Introducing deep research

An agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you. Available to Pro users today, Plus and Team next.

OpenAI ·
What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?

Editor’s note: This article, originally published on Nov. 15, 2023, has been updated. To understand the latest advancements in generative AI, imagine a courtroom. Judges hear and decide cases based on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires…

NVIDIA AI ·
OpenAI o3-mini System Card

This report outlines the safety work carried out for the OpenAI o3-mini model, including safety evaluations, external red teaming, and Preparedness Framework evaluations.

OpenAI ·
Operator System Card

Drawing from OpenAI’s established safety frameworks, this document highlights our multi-layered approach, including model and product mitigations we’ve implemented to protect against prompt engineering and jailbreaks, protect privacy and security, as well as details our external red teaming efforts, safety evaluations…

OpenAI ·
Stargate Infrastructure

OpenAI, and our strategic partners, are thrilled about our shared vision for the Infrastructure of AGI. We are energized by the challenges we face and are excited by the prospect of partnering with firms across the industrial base to deliver against our ambitious mission. Specifically, we want to connect with firms ac…

OpenAI ·
Partnering with Axios expands OpenAI’s work with the news industry

Publishers representing hundreds of newsrooms and content brands are using OpenAI partnerships and grant programs to adopt AI tools and strengthen the news ecosystem, while ChatGPT users gain access to information from leading, reliable publications.

OpenAI ·
Healthcare Leaders, NVIDIA CEO Share AI Innovation Across the Industry

AI is making inroads across the entire healthcare industry — from genomic research to drug discovery, clinical trial workflows and patient care. In a fireside chat Monday during the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang took the stage with industry leaders progr…

NVIDIA AI ·
Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

Elon Musk’s latest legal filing against OpenAI marks his fourth attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims. However, his own words and actions speak for themselves—in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s proposed new structure.

OpenAI ·
Sora is here

Our video generation model, Sora, is now available to use at sora.com. Users can generate videos up to 1080p resolution, up to 20 sec long, and in widescreen, vertical or square aspect ratios. You can bring your own assets to extend, remix, and blend, or generate entirely new content from text.

OpenAI ·
Minne Atairu & Sora

Interdisciplinary artist Minne Atairu discusses how Sora helps realize her vision.

OpenAI ·
Sora System Card

Sora is OpenAI’s video generation model, designed to take text, image, and video inputs and generate a new video as an output. Sora builds on learnings from DALL-E and GPT models, and is designed to give people expanded tools for storytelling and creative expression.

OpenAI ·
Vallée Duhamel & Sora

Filmmaking duo Vallée Duhamel explains how Sora helps build new worlds.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI o1 System Card

This report outlines the safety work carried out prior to releasing OpenAI o1 and o1-mini, including external red teaming and frontier risk evaluations according to our Preparedness Framework.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI and Future partner on specialist content

OpenAI and Future, the global platform for specialist media, have today announced a strategic partnership to bring content from Future’s 200 plus media brands to OpenAI’s users.

OpenAI ·
Rox goes “all in” on OpenAI

By combining commercial experience and deep LLM expertise with OpenAI’s models, Rox makes every seller a top 1% seller.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI en France

Our first office in continental Europe

OpenAI ·
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and di…

Berkeley BAIR ·
Introducing SimpleQA

A factuality benchmark called SimpleQA that measures the ability for language models to answer short, fact-seeking questions.

OpenAI ·
Evaluating fairness in ChatGPT

We've analyzed how ChatGPT responds to users based on their name, using AI research assistants to protect privacy.

OpenAI ·
New Credit Facility Enhances Financial Flexibility

In addition to securing $6.6 billion in new funding from leading investors, we have established a new $4 billion credit facility with leading banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Santander, Wells Fargo, SMBC, UBS, and HSBC.

OpenAI ·
Introducing the Realtime API

Developers can now build fast speech-to-speech experiences into their applications

OpenAI ·
Prompt Caching in the API

Offering automatic discounts on inputs that the model has recently seen

OpenAI ·
Model Distillation in the API

Fine-tune a cost-efficient model with the outputs of a large frontier model–all on the OpenAI platform

OpenAI ·
OpenAI o1-mini

Advancing cost-efficient reasoning

OpenAI ·
Coding with OpenAI o1

Scott Wu, CEO and Co-Founder of Cognition, explains how OpenAI o1 makes coding decisions in a more human-like way.

OpenAI ·
Decoding genetics with OpenAI o1

Geneticist Catherine Brownstein demonstrates how OpenAI o1 can speed up the process of diagnosing rare medical challenges.

OpenAI ·
Personalizing education with ChatGPT

Arizona State University embraces ChatGPT campus-wide to personalize learning, advance research, and prepare students for the future

OpenAI ·
Putting AI to work at Upwork

Upwork puts AI to work, uniting team members, operations and product development

OpenAI ·
Delivering contextual job matching for millions with OpenAI

Indeed, whose mission is to help people get jobs, is the world’s #1 job site. Over 350 million unique visitors come to Indeed every month to connect with more than 3.5 million employers and over 32 million jobs. But what’s more is that every three seconds someone gets hired on Indeed.

OpenAI ·
Awakening Sleeping Beauties at The Met

AI can enrich lives through beauty and creativity, and its artistic potential shines in "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," a collaborative exhibit from The Met's Costume Institute.

OpenAI ·
Introducing SWE-bench Verified

We’re releasing a human-validated subset of SWE-bench that more reliably evaluates AI models’ ability to solve real-world software issues.

OpenAI ·
Zico Kolter Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors

Zico Kolter Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors We’re strengthening our governance with expertise in AI safety and alignment. Zico will also join the Safety & Security Committee

OpenAI ·
Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4

CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4, writes critiques of ChatGPT responses to help human trainers spot mistakes during RLHF

OpenAI ·
Strategic Content Partnership with TIME

We’re partnering with TIME and its 101 years of archival content to enhance responses and provide links to stories on Time.com

OpenAI ·
Consistency Models

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the fields of image, audio, and video generation, but they depend on an iterative sampling process that causes slow generation.

OpenAI ·
Surging developer productivity with custom GPTs

Paf adopted ChatGPT Enterprise across its entire company, with engineers using custom GPTs on a daily basis to speed up routine development tasks. Paf also integrated ChatGPT Enterprise into the grit:lab coding academy (gritlab.ax), training the next generation of software developers using an AI-augmented, systems-arc…

OpenAI ·
Using GPT-4o reasoning to transform cancer care

Color Health is working with OpenAI to pioneer a new way of accelerating cancer patients’ access to treatment. Their new Cancer Copilot application uses GPT-4o to identify missing diagnostics and create tailored workup plans, enabling healthcare providers to make evidence-based decisions about cancer screening and tre…

OpenAI ·
Extracting Concepts from GPT-4

Using new techniques for scaling sparse autoencoders, we automatically identified 16 million patterns in GPT-4's computations.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI for Nonprofits

We’re launching a new initiative to enhance the accessibility of our tools for nonprofit organizations, including discounted rates for ChatGPT Team and Enterprise.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI for Education

An affordable offering for universities to responsibly bring AI to campus.

OpenAI ·
Automating customer support agents

MavenAGI is a new software company for the AI era. They recently launched an AI customer service agent, built on the flexibility of GPT-4, which a number of companies like Tripadvisor, Clickup and Rho are already using to save time and better serve their customers.

OpenAI ·
Enhancing news in ChatGPT with The Atlantic

The Atlantic is announcing a strategic content and product partnership with OpenAI, which positions The Atlantic as a premium news source within OpenAI. The Atlantic’s articles will be discoverable within OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, and as a partner, The Atlantic will help to shape how news is surfaced and p…

OpenAI ·
A Content and Product Partnership with Vox Media

In a multi-faceted agreement, Vox Media’s content will enhance the output of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the company will build on OpenAI’s technology to develop products to better serve its audiences and advertisers.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI safety practices

Artificial general intelligence has the potential to benefit nearly every aspect of our lives—so it must be developed and deployed responsibly.

OpenAI ·
How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen We worked with industry-leading casting and directing professionals to narrow down over 400 submissions before selecting the 5 voices.

OpenAI ·
Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT

Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT Interact with tables and charts and add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI and Reddit Partnership

OpenAI and Reddit Partnership We’re bringing Reddit’s unique content to ChatGPT and our products.

OpenAI ·
Creating an AI-powered Magic Studio

Canva is a visual communication platform, enjoyed by more than 175 million people monthly to make presentations, videos, documents, websites, social media graphics and more. A majority of the world’s knowledge workers lack design training, but Canva’s combination of an easy-to-use interface, vast libraries, and time-s…

OpenAI ·
Hello GPT-4o

We’re announcing GPT-4 Omni, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.

OpenAI ·
Spring Update

Introducing GPT-4o and making more capabilities available for free in ChatGPT.

OpenAI ·
Our approach to data and AI

Just over a year after launching ChatGPT, AI is changing how we live, work and learn. It’s also raised important conversations about data in the age of AI. More on our approach, a new Media Manager for creators and content owners, and where we’re headed.

OpenAI ·
Understanding the source of what we see and hear online

Today we’re introducing new technology to help researchers identify content created by our tools and joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity Steering Committee to promote industry standards.

OpenAI ·
API Partnership with Stack Overflow

API Partnership with Stack Overflow Stack Overflow and OpenAI today announced a new API partnership that will empower developers with the collective strengths of the world’s leading knowledge platform for highly technical content with the world’s most popular LLM models for AI development.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI Japan

We are excited to announce our first office in Asia and we’re releasing a GPT-4 custom model optimized for the Japanese language.

OpenAI ·
Start using ChatGPT instantly

We’re making it easier for people to experience the benefits of AI without needing to sign up

OpenAI ·
Sora first impressions

Since we introduced Sora to the world last month, we’ve been working with artists to learn how Sora might aid in their creative process.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI and Elon Musk

We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way.

OpenAI ·
Video generation models as world simulators

We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our…

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
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 lar…

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT Team

We’re launching a new ChatGPT plan for teams of all sizes, which provides a secure, collaborative workspace to get the most out of ChatGPT at work.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI and journalism

We support journalism, partner with news organizations, and believe The New York Times lawsuit is without merit.

OpenAI ·
Superalignment Fast Grants

We’re launching $10M in grants to support technical research towards the alignment and safety of superhuman AI systems, including weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight, and more.

OpenAI ·
Weak-to-strong generalization

We present a new research direction for superalignment, together with promising initial results: can we leverage the generalization properties of deep learning to control strong models with weak supervisors?

OpenAI ·
OpenAI Data Partnerships

Working together to create open-source and private datasets for AI training.

OpenAI ·
Introducing GPTs

You can now create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills.

OpenAI ·
Frontier risk and preparedness

To support the safety of highly-capable AI systems, we are developing our approach to catastrophic risk preparedness, including building a Preparedness team and launching a challenge.

OpenAI ·
Frontier Model Forum updates

Together with Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, we’re announcing the new Executive Director of the Frontier Model Forum and a new $10 million AI Safety Fund.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI Red Teaming Network

We’re announcing an open call for the OpenAI Red Teaming Network and invite domain experts interested in improving the safety of OpenAI’s models to join our efforts.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI Dublin

We’re growing our presence in Europe with an office in Dublin, Ireland.

OpenAI ·
Teaching with AI

We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise

Get enterprise-grade security & privacy and the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet.

OpenAI ·
Using GPT-4 for content moderation

We use GPT-4 for content policy development and content moderation decisions, enabling more consistent labeling, a faster feedback loop for policy refinement, and less involvement from human moderators.

OpenAI ·
Frontier Model Forum

We’re forming a new industry body to promote the safe and responsible development of frontier AI systems: advancing AI safety research, identifying best practices and standards, and facilitating information sharing among policymakers and industry.

OpenAI ·
Moving AI governance forward

OpenAI and other leading labs reinforce AI safety, security and trustworthiness through voluntary commitments.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
Partnership with American Journalism Project to support local news

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

OpenAI ·
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.

OpenAI ·
Introducing OpenAI London

We are excited to announce OpenAI’s first international expansion with a new office in London, United Kingdom.

OpenAI ·
Function calling and other API updates

We’re announcing updates including more steerable API models, function calling capabilities, longer context, and lower prices.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program

Our goal is to facilitate the development of AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities for defenders through grants and other support.

OpenAI ·
Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision

We've trained a model to achieve a new state-of-the-art in mathematical problem solving by rewarding each correct step of reasoning (“process supervision”) instead of simply rewarding the correct final answer (“outcome supervision”). In addition to boosting performance relative to outcome supervision, process supervis…

OpenAI ·
Democratic inputs to AI

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

OpenAI ·
Governance of superintelligence

Now is a good time to start thinking about the governance of superintelligence—future AI systems dramatically more capable than even AGI.

OpenAI ·
Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS

The ChatGPT app syncs your conversations, supports voice input, and brings our latest model improvements to your fingertips.

OpenAI ·
Language models can explain neurons in language models

We use GPT-4 to automatically write explanations for the behavior of neurons in large language models and to score those explanations. We release a dataset of these (imperfect) explanations and scores for every neuron in GPT-2.

OpenAI ·
New ways to manage your data in ChatGPT

ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history, allowing you to choose which conversations can be used to train our models.

OpenAI ·
Announcing OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program

This initiative is essential to our commitment to develop safe and advanced AI. As we create technology and services that are secure, reliable, and trustworthy, we need your help.

OpenAI ·
Our approach to AI safety

Ensuring that AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely is critical to our mission.

OpenAI ·
ChatGPT plugins

We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.

OpenAI ·
Stripe

Stripe leverages GPT-4 to streamline user experience and combat fraud.

OpenAI ·
GPT-4

We’ve created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic b…

OpenAI ·
Planning for AGI and beyond

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI ·
How should AI systems behave, and who should decide?

We’re clarifying how ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped and our plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization, and getting more public input into our decision-making in these areas.

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT Plus

We’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions.

OpenAI ·
New and improved embedding model

We are excited to announce a new embedding model which is significantly more capable, cost effective, and simpler to use.

OpenAI ·
Introducing ChatGPT

We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

OpenAI ·
DALL·E now available without waitlist

New users can start creating straight away. Lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our safety systems make wider availability possible.

OpenAI ·
Our approach to alignment research

We are improving our AI systems’ ability to learn from human feedback and to assist humans at evaluating AI. Our goal is to build a sufficiently aligned AI system that can help us solve all other alignment problems.

OpenAI ·
New and improved content moderation tooling

We are introducing a new and improved content moderation tool. The Moderation endpoint improves upon our previous content filter, and is available for free today to OpenAI API developers.

OpenAI ·
DALL·E now available in beta

We’ll invite 1 million people from our waitlist over the coming weeks. Users can create with DALL·E using free credits that refill every month, and buy additional credits in 115-generation increments for $15.

OpenAI ·
Reducing bias and improving safety in DALL·E 2

Today, we are implementing a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population.

OpenAI ·
DALL·E 2: Extending creativity

As part of our DALL·E 2 research preview, more than 3,000 artists from more than 118 countries have incorporated DALL·E into their creative workflows. The artists in our early access group have helped us discover new uses for DALL·E and have served as key voices as we’ve made decisions about DALL·E’s features.

OpenAI ·
DALL·E 2 pre-training mitigations

In order to share the magic of DALL·E 2 with a broad audience, we needed to reduce the risks associated with powerful image generation models. To this end, we put various guardrails in place to prevent generated images from violating our content policy.

OpenAI ·
Learning to play Minecraft with Video PreTraining

We trained a neural network to play Minecraft by Video PreTraining (VPT) on a massive unlabeled video dataset of human Minecraft play, while using only a small amount of labeled contractor data. With fine-tuning, our model can learn to craft diamond tools, a task that usually takes proficient humans over 20 minutes (2…

OpenAI ·
AI-written critiques help humans notice flaws

We trained “critique-writing” models to describe flaws in summaries. Human evaluators find flaws in summaries much more often when shown our model’s critiques. Larger models are better at self-critiquing, with scale improving critique-writing more than summary-writing. This shows promise for using AI systems to assist…

OpenAI ·
Techniques for training large neural networks

Large neural networks are at the core of many recent advances in AI, but training them is a difficult engineering and research challenge which requires orchestrating a cluster of GPUs to perform a single synchronized calculation.

OpenAI ·
Best practices for deploying language models

Cohere, OpenAI, and AI21 Labs have developed a preliminary set of best practices applicable to any organization developing or deploying large language models.

OpenAI ·
DALL·E 2 research preview update

Early users have created over 3 million images to date and helped us improve our safety processes. We’re excited to begin adding up to 1,000 new users from our waitlist each week.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI leadership team update

We’re happy to announce several executive role changes that reflect our recent progress and will ensure continued momentum toward our next major milestones.

OpenAI ·
Measuring Goodhart’s law

Goodhart’s law famously says: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Although originally from economics, it’s something we have to grapple with at OpenAI when figuring out how to optimize objectives that are difficult or costly to measure.

OpenAI ·
New GPT-3 capabilities: Edit & insert

We’ve released new versions of GPT-3 and Codex which can edit or insert content into existing text, rather than just completing existing text.

OpenAI ·
Solving (some) formal math olympiad problems

We built a neural theorem prover for Lean that learned to solve a variety of challenging high-school olympiad problems, including problems from the AMC12 and AIME competitions, as well as two problems adapted from the IMO.

OpenAI ·
Introducing text and code embeddings

We are introducing embeddings, a new endpoint in the OpenAI API that makes it easy to perform natural language and code tasks like semantic search, clustering, topic modeling, and classification.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI Residency

As part of our effort to support and develop AI talent, we’re excited to announce the OpenAI Residency.

OpenAI ·
Solving math word problems

We’ve trained a system that solves grade school math problems with nearly twice the accuracy of a fine-tuned GPT-3 model. It solves about 90% as many problems as real kids: a small sample of 9-12 year olds scored 60% on a test from our dataset, while our system scored 55% on those same problems.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI Codex

We’ve created an improved version of OpenAI Codex, our AI system that translates natural language to code, and we are releasing it through our API in private beta starting today.

OpenAI ·
Introducing Triton: Open-source GPU programming for neural networks

We’re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with what an expert would be able to produce.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI Scholars 2021: Final projects

We’re proud to announce that the 2021 class of OpenAI Scholars has completed our six-month mentorship program and have produced an open-source research project with stipends and support from OpenAI.

OpenAI ·
Will Hurd joins OpenAI’s board of directors

OpenAI is committed to developing general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity, and we believe that achieving our goal requires expertise in public policy as well as technology. So, we’re delighted to announce that Congressman Will Hurd has joined our board of directors.

OpenAI ·
GPT-3 powers the next generation of apps

Over 300 applications are delivering GPT-3–powered search, conversation, text completion, and other advanced AI features through our API.

OpenAI ·
Multimodal neurons in artificial neural networks

We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP’s accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, and is also an important step toward understanding the associations and biases that CLIP and similar mo…

OpenAI ·
Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes

We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.

OpenAI ·
CLIP: Connecting text and images

We’re introducing a neural network called CLIP which efficiently learns visual concepts from natural language supervision. CLIP can be applied to any visual classification benchmark by simply providing the names of the visual categories to be recognized, similar to the “zero-shot” capabilities of GPT-2 and GPT-3.

OpenAI ·
DALL·E: Creating images from text

We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.

OpenAI ·
OpenAI Scholars 2020: Final projects

Our third class of OpenAI Scholars presented their final projects at virtual Demo Day, showcasing their research results from over the past five months.

OpenAI ·
Procgen and MineRL Competitions

We’re excited to announce that OpenAI is co-organizing two NeurIPS 2020 competitions with AIcrowd, Carnegie Mellon University, and DeepMind, using Procgen Benchmark and MineRL.

OpenAI ·
Image GPT

We find that, just as a large transformer model trained on language can generate coherent text, the same exact model trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and samples. By establishing a correlation between sample quality and image classification accuracy, we show that our best generative m…

OpenAI ·
OpenAI API

We’re releasing an API for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI.

OpenAI ·
AI and efficiency

We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012 the amount of compute needed to train a neural net to the same performance on ImageNet classification has been decreasing by a factor of 2 every 16 months. Compared to 2012, it now takes 44 times less compute to train a neural network to the level of AlexNet (by cont…

OpenAI ·
Jukebox

We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.

OpenAI ·
Improving verifiability in AI development

We’ve contributed to a multi-stakeholder report by 58 co-authors at 30 organizations, including the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Mila, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and Center for Security and Emerging Technologies. This report de…

OpenAI ·
OpenAI Microscope

We’re introducing OpenAI Microscope, a collection of visualizations of every significant layer and neuron of eight vision “model organisms” which are often studied in interpretability. Microscope makes it easier to analyze the features that form inside these neural networks, and we hope it will help the research commu…

OpenAI ·
Deep double descent

We show that the double descent phenomenon occurs in CNNs, ResNets, and transformers: performance first improves, then gets worse, and then improves again with increasing model size, data size, or training time. This effect is often avoided through careful regularization. While this behavior appears to be fairly unive…

OpenAI ·
Procgen Benchmark

We’re releasing Procgen Benchmark, 16 simple-to-use procedurally-generated environments which provide a direct measure of how quickly a reinforcement learning agent learns generalizable skills.

OpenAI ·
Safety Gym

We’re releasing Safety Gym, a suite of environments and tools for measuring progress towards reinforcement learning agents that respect safety constraints while training.

OpenAI ·
GPT-2: 1.5B release

As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release…

OpenAI ·
Solving Rubik’s Cube with a robot hand

We’ve trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a human-like robot hand. The neural networks are trained entirely in simulation, using the same reinforcement learning code as OpenAI Five paired with a new technique called Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR). The system can handle situations it…

OpenAI ·
Fine-tuning GPT-2 from human preferences

We’ve fine-tuned the 774M parameter GPT-2 language model using human feedback for various tasks, successfully matching the preferences of the external human labelers, though those preferences did not always match our own. Specifically, for summarization tasks the labelers preferred sentences copied wholesale from the…

OpenAI ·
Emergent tool use from multi-agent interaction

We’ve observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counterstrategies, some of which we did not know our environment supported. The self-…

OpenAI ·
Testing robustness against unforeseen adversaries

We’ve developed a method to assess whether a neural network classifier can reliably defend against adversarial attacks not seen during training. Our method yields a new metric, UAR (Unforeseen Attack Robustness), which evaluates the robustness of a single model against an unanticipated attack, and highlights the need…

OpenAI ·
GPT-2: 6-month follow-up

We’re releasing the 774 million parameter GPT-2 language model after the release of our small 124M model in February, staged release of our medium 355M model in May, and subsequent research with partners and the AI community into the model’s potential for misuse and societal benefit. We’re also releasing an open-sourc…

OpenAI ·
Learning Day

At OpenAI, each Thursday is Learning Day: a day where employees have the option to self-study technical skills that will make them better at their job but which aren’t being learned from daily work.

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Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies…

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Why responsible AI development needs cooperation on safety

We’ve written a policy research paper identifying four strategies that can be used today to improve the likelihood of long-term industry cooperation on safety norms in AI: communicating risks and benefits, technical collaboration, increased transparency, and incentivizing standards. Our analysis shows that industry co…

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OpenAI Scholars 2019: Final projects

Our second class of OpenAI Scholars has concluded, with all eight scholars producing an exciting final project showcased at Scholars Demo Day at OpenAI.

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OpenAI Fellows Fall 2018: Final projects

Our second class of OpenAI Fellows has wrapped up, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor in the course of a 6-month apprenticeship. We are currently reviewing applications on a rolling basis for our next round of OpenAI Fellows Summer 2019.

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MuseNet

We’ve created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style…

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Generative modeling with sparse transformers

We’ve developed the Sparse Transformer, a deep neural network which sets new records at predicting what comes next in a sequence—whether text, images, or sound. It uses an algorithmic improvement of the attention mechanism to extract patterns from sequences 30x longer than possible previously.

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OpenAI Five defeats Dota 2 world champions

OpenAI Five is the first AI to beat the world champions in an esports game, having won two back-to-back games versus the world champion Dota 2 team, OG, at Finals this weekend. Both OpenAI Five and DeepMind’s AlphaStar had previously beaten good pros privately but lost their live pro matches, making this also the firs…

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OpenAI Five Finals

We’ll be holding our final live event for OpenAI Five at 11:30am PT on April 13.

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Implicit generation and generalization methods for energy-based models

We’ve made progress towards stable and scalable training of energy-based models (EBMs) resulting in better sample quality and generalization ability than existing models. Generation in EBMs spends more compute to continually refine its answers and doing so can generate samples competitive with GANs at low temperatures…

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OpenAI Scholars 2019: Meet our Scholars

Our class of eight scholars (out of 550 applicants) brings together collective expertise in literature, philosophy, cell biology, statistics, economics, quantum physics, and business innovation.

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OpenAI LP

We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.

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Introducing Activation Atlases

We’ve created activation atlases (in collaboration with Google researchers), a new technique for visualizing what interactions between neurons can represent. As AI systems are deployed in increasingly sensitive contexts, having a better understanding of their internal decision-making processes will let us identify wea…

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Neural MMO: A massively multiagent game environment

We’re releasing a Neural MMO, a massively multiagent game environment for reinforcement learning agents. Our platform supports a large, variable number of agents within a persistent and open-ended task. The inclusion of many agents and species leads to better exploration, divergent niche formation, and greater overall…

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AI safety needs social scientists

We’ve written a paper arguing that long-term AI safety research needs social scientists to ensure AI alignment algorithms succeed when actual humans are involved. Properly aligning advanced AI systems with human values requires resolving many uncertainties related to the psychology of human rationality, emotion, and b…

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Better language models and their implications

We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.

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OpenAI Fellows Summer 2018: Final projects

Our first cohort of OpenAI Fellows has concluded, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor in the course of a 6-month apprenticeship.

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How AI training scales

We’ve discovered that the gradient noise scale, a simple statistical metric, predicts the parallelizability of neural network training on a wide range of tasks. Since complex tasks tend to have noisier gradients, increasingly large batch sizes are likely to become useful in the future, removing one potential limit to…

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Quantifying generalization in reinforcement learning

We’re releasing CoinRun, a training environment which provides a metric for an agent’s ability to transfer its experience to novel situations and has already helped clarify a longstanding puzzle in reinforcement learning. CoinRun strikes a desirable balance in complexity: the environment is simpler than traditional pl…

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Spinning Up in Deep RL

We’re releasing Spinning Up in Deep RL, an educational resource designed to let anyone learn to become a skilled practitioner in deep reinforcement learning. Spinning Up consists of crystal-clear examples of RL code, educational exercises, documentation, and tutorials.

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Learning concepts with energy functions

We’ve developed an energy-based model that can quickly learn to identify and generate instances of concepts, such as near, above, between, closest, and furthest, expressed as sets of 2d points. Our model learns these concepts after only five demonstrations. We also show cross-domain transfer: we use concepts learned i…

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Reinforcement learning with prediction-based rewards

We’ve developed Random Network Distillation (RND), a prediction-based method for encouraging reinforcement learning agents to explore their environments through curiosity, which for the first time exceeds average human performance on Montezuma’s Revenge.

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Learning complex goals with iterated amplification

We’re proposing an AI safety technique called iterated amplification that lets us specify complicated behaviors and goals that are beyond human scale, by demonstrating how to decompose a task into simpler sub-tasks, rather than by providing labeled data or a reward function. Although this idea is in its very early sta…

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OpenAI Scholars 2019: Applications open

We are now accepting applications for our second cohort of OpenAI Scholars, a program where we provide 6–10 stipends and mentorship to individuals from underrepresented groups to study deep learning full-time for 3 months and open-source a project.

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The International 2018: Results

OpenAI Five lost two games against top Dota 2 players at The International in Vancouver this week, maintaining a good chance of winning for the first 20–35 minutes of both games.

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OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results

Yesterday, OpenAI Five won a best-of-three against a team of 99.95th percentile Dota players: Blitz, Cap, Fogged, Merlini, and MoonMeander—four of whom have played Dota professionally—in front of a live audience and 100,000 concurrent livestream viewers.

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Learning dexterity

We’ve trained a human-like robot hand to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity.

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OpenAI Scholars 2018: Meet our Scholars

Our first class of OpenAI Scholars is underway, and you can now follow along as this group of experienced software developers becomes machine learning practitioners.

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Glow: Better reversible generative models

We introduce Glow, a reversible generative model which uses invertible 1x1 convolutions. It extends previous work on reversible generative models and simplifies the architecture. Our model can generate realistic high resolution images, supports efficient sampling, and discovers features that can be used to manipulate…

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Learning Montezuma’s Revenge from a single demonstration

We’ve trained an agent to achieve a high score of 74,500 on Montezuma’s Revenge from a single human demonstration, better than any previously published result. Our algorithm is simple: the agent plays a sequence of games starting from carefully chosen states from the demonstration, and learns from them by optimizing t…

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OpenAI Five

Our team of five neural networks, OpenAI Five, has started to defeat amateur human teams at Dota 2.

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Retro Contest: Results

The first run of our Retro Contest—exploring the development of algorithms that can generalize from previous experience—is now complete.

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Improving language understanding with unsupervised learning

We’ve obtained state-of-the-art results on a suite of diverse language tasks with a scalable, task-agnostic system, which we’re also releasing. Our approach is a combination of two existing ideas: transformers and unsupervised pre-training. These results provide a convincing example that pairing supervised learning me…

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OpenAI Fellows Fall 2018

We’re now accepting applications for the next cohort of OpenAI Fellows, a program which offers a compensated 6-month apprenticeship in AI research at OpenAI.

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Gym Retro

We’re releasing the full version of Gym Retro, a platform for reinforcement learning research on games. This brings our publicly-released game count from around 70 Atari games and 30 Sega games to over 1,000 games across a variety of backing emulators. We’re also releasing the tool we use to add new games to the platf…

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AI and compute

We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.4-month doubling time (by comparison, Moore’s Law had a 2-year doubling period)[^footnote-correction]. Since 2012, this metric has grown by more than 300,000x (a 2-…

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AI safety via debate

We’re proposing an AI safety technique which trains agents to debate topics with one another, using a human to judge who wins.

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Evolved Policy Gradients

We’re releasing an experimental metalearning approach called Evolved Policy Gradients, a method that evolves the loss function of learning agents, which can enable fast training on novel tasks. Agents trained with EPG can succeed at basic tasks at test time that were outside their training regime, like learning to nav…

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Retro Contest

We’re launching a transfer learning contest that measures a reinforcement learning algorithm’s ability to generalize from previous experience.

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Report from the OpenAI hackathon

On March 3rd, we hosted our first hackathon with 100 members of the artificial intelligence community.

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Reptile: A scalable meta-learning algorithm

We’ve developed a simple meta-learning algorithm called Reptile which works by repeatedly sampling a task, performing stochastic gradient descent on it, and updating the initial parameters towards the final parameters learned on that task. Reptile is the application of the Shortest Descent algorithm to the meta-learni…

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OpenAI Scholars

We’re providing 6–10 stipends and mentorship to individuals from underrepresented groups to study deep learning full-time for 3 months and open-source a project.

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Ingredients for robotics research

We’re releasing eight simulated robotics environments and a Baselines implementation of Hindsight Experience Replay, all developed for our research over the past year. We’ve used these environments to train models which work on physical robots. We’re also releasing a set of requests for robotics research.

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OpenAI hackathon

Come to OpenAI’s office in San Francisco’s Mission District for talks and a hackathon on Saturday, March 3rd.

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Preparing for malicious uses of AI

We’ve co-authored a paper that forecasts how malicious actors could misuse AI technology, and potential ways we can prevent and mitigate these threats. This paper is the outcome of almost a year of sustained work with our colleagues at the Future of Humanity Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the…

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OpenAI supporters

We’re excited to welcome new donors to OpenAI.

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Interpretable machine learning through teaching

We’ve designed a method that encourages AIs to teach each other with examples that also make sense to humans. Our approach automatically selects the most informative examples to teach a concept—for instance, the best images to describe the concept of dogs—and experimentally we found our approach to be effective at tea…

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Discovering types for entity disambiguation

We’ve built a system for automatically figuring out which object is meant by a word by having a neural network decide if the word belongs to each of about 100 automatically-discovered “types” (non-exclusive categories).

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Requests for Research 2.0

We’re releasing a new batch of seven unsolved problems which have come up in the course of our research at OpenAI.

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Block-sparse GPU kernels

We’re releasing highly-optimized GPU kernels for an underexplored class of neural network architectures: networks with block-sparse weights. Depending on the chosen sparsity, these kernels can run orders of magnitude faster than cuBLAS or cuSPARSE. We’ve used them to attain state-of-the-art results in text sentiment a…

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Learning a hierarchy

We’ve developed a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm that learns high-level actions useful for solving a range of tasks, allowing fast solving of tasks requiring thousands of timesteps. Our algorithm, when applied to a set of navigation problems, discovers a set of high-level actions for walking and crawlin…

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Generalizing from simulation

Our latest robotics techniques allow robot controllers, trained entirely in simulation and deployed on physical robots, to react to unplanned changes in the environment as they solve simple tasks. That is, we’ve used these techniques to build closed-loop systems rather than open-loop ones as before.

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Meta-learning for wrestling

We show that for the task of simulated robot wrestling, a meta-learning agent can learn to quickly defeat a stronger non-meta-learning agent, and also show that the meta-learning agent can adapt to physical malfunction.

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Competitive self-play

We’ve found that self-play allows simulated AIs to discover physical skills like tackling, ducking, faking, kicking, catching, and diving for the ball, without explicitly designing an environment with these skills in mind. Self-play ensures that the environment is always the right difficulty for an AI to improve. Take…

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Learning to model other minds

We’re releasing an algorithm which accounts for the fact that other agents are learning too, and discovers self-interested yet collaborative strategies like tit-for-tat in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma. This algorithm, Learning with Opponent-Learning Awareness (LOLA), is a small step towards agents that model other…

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OpenAI Baselines: ACKTR & A2C

We’re releasing two new OpenAI Baselines implementations: ACKTR and A2C. A2C is a synchronous, deterministic variant of Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic (A3C) which we’ve found gives equal performance. ACKTR is a more sample-efficient reinforcement learning algorithm than TRPO and A2C, and requires only slightly mo…

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More on Dota 2

Our Dota 2 result shows that self-play can catapult the performance of machine learning systems from far below human level to superhuman, given sufficient compute. In the span of a month, our system went from barely matching a high-ranked player to beating the top pros and has continued to improve since then. Supervis…

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Dota 2

We’ve created a bot which beats the world’s top professionals at 1v1 matches of Dota 2 under standard tournament rules. The bot learned the game from scratch by self-play, and does not use imitation learning or tree search. This is a step towards building AI systems which accomplish well-defined goals in messy, compli…

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Gathering human feedback

RL-Teacher is an open-source implementation of our interface to train AIs via occasional human feedback rather than hand-crafted reward functions. The underlying technique was developed as a step towards safe AI systems, but also applies to reinforcement learning problems with rewards that are hard to specify.

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Better exploration with parameter noise

We’ve found that adding adaptive noise to the parameters of reinforcement learning algorithms frequently boosts performance. This exploration method is simple to implement and very rarely decreases performance, so it’s worth trying on any problem.

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Proximal Policy Optimization

We’re releasing a new class of reinforcement learning algorithms, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), which perform comparably or better than state-of-the-art approaches while being much simpler to implement and tune. PPO has become the default reinforcement learning algorithm at OpenAI because of its ease of use and…

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Robust adversarial inputs

We’ve created images that reliably fool neural network classifiers when viewed from varied scales and perspectives. This challenges a claim from last week that self-driving cars would be hard to trick maliciously since they capture images from multiple scales, angles, perspectives, and the like.

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Faster physics in Python

We’re open-sourcing a high-performance Python library for robotic simulation using the MuJoCo engine, developed over our past year of robotics research.

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Learning from human preferences

One step towards building safe AI systems is to remove the need for humans to write goal functions, since using a simple proxy for a complex goal, or getting the complex goal a bit wrong, can lead to undesirable and even dangerous behavior. In collaboration with DeepMind’s safety team, we’ve developed an algorithm whi…

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Learning to cooperate, compete, and communicate

Multiagent environments where agents compete for resources are stepping stones on the path to AGI. Multiagent environments have two useful properties: first, there is a natural curriculum—the difficulty of the environment is determined by the skill of your competitors (and if you’re competing against clones of yoursel…

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OpenAI Baselines: DQN

We’re open-sourcing OpenAI Baselines, our internal effort to reproduce reinforcement learning algorithms with performance on par with published results. We’ll release the algorithms over upcoming months; today’s release includes DQN and three of its variants.

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Robots that learn

We’ve created a robotics system, trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot, which can learn a new task after seeing it done once.

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Roboschool

We are releasing Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation, integrated with OpenAI Gym.

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Unsupervised sentiment neuron

We’ve developed an unsupervised system which learns an excellent representation of sentiment, despite being trained only to predict the next character in the text of Amazon reviews.

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Spam detection in the physical world

We’ve created the world’s first Spam-detecting AI trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot.

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Evolution strategies as a scalable alternative to reinforcement learning

We’ve discovered that evolution strategies (ES), an optimization technique that’s been known for decades, rivals the performance of standard reinforcement learning (RL) techniques on modern RL benchmarks (e.g. Atari/MuJoCo), while overcoming many of RL’s inconveniences.

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Distill

We’re excited to support today’s launch of Distill, a new kind of journal aimed at excellent communication of machine learning results (novel or existing).

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Learning to communicate

In this post we’ll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.

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Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to cause the model to make a mistake; they’re like optical illusions for machines. In this post we’ll show how adversarial examples work across different mediums, and will discuss why securing systems against them ca…

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Team update

The OpenAI team is now 45 people. Together, we’re pushing the frontier of AI capabilities—whether by validating novel ideas, creating new software systems, or deploying machine learning on robots.

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Faulty reward functions in the wild

Reinforcement learning algorithms can break in surprising, counterintuitive ways. In this post we’ll explore one failure mode, which is where you misspecify your reward function.

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Universe

We’re releasing Universe, a software platform for measuring and training an AI’s general intelligence across the world’s supply of games, websites and other applications.

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OpenAI and Microsoft

We’re working with Microsoft to start running most of our large-scale experiments on Azure.

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Report from the self-organizing conference

Last week we hosted over a hundred and fifty AI practitioners in our offices for our first self-organizing conference on machine learning.

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Infrastructure for deep learning

Deep learning is an empirical science, and the quality of a group’s infrastructure is a multiplier on progress. Fortunately, today’s open-source ecosystem makes it possible for anyone to build great deep learning infrastructure.

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Machine Learning Unconference

The latest information about the Unconference is now available at the Unconference wiki, which will be periodically updated with more information for attendees.

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Special projects

Impactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter.

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Concrete AI safety problems

We (along with researchers from Berkeley and Stanford) are co-authors on today’s paper led by Google Brain researchers, Concrete Problems in AI Safety. The paper explores many research problems around ensuring that modern machine learning systems operate as intended.

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OpenAI technical goals

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.

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Generative models

This post describes four projects that share a common theme of enhancing or using generative models, a branch of unsupervised learning techniques in machine learning. In addition to describing our work, this post will tell you a bit more about generative models: what they are, why they are important, and where they mi…

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OpenAI Gym Beta

We’re releasing the public beta of OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. It consists of a growing suite of environments (from simulated robots to Atari games), and a site for comparing and reproducing results.

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Team++

We've had some fantastic people join over the past few months (and we're still hiring). Welcome, everyone!

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Introducing OpenAI

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive huma…

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