Releases
52 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
September 20264
Sep 29, 2026
GPT-6.1 Sol releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol in the API as an updated workhorse model.
Sep 22, 2026
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna releasedModel release
OpenAI added GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the API as capability and efficiency tiers in the GPT-6 family.
Sep 8, 2026
GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst and Flare releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst and Flare as a new generation of image models.
Sep 3, 2026
GPT-6 Astra releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a frontier model positioned for its most demanding reasoning and agentic workloads.
August 20261
Aug 10, 2026
GPT-5.6 Cyber released for defensive securityModel release
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 Cyber for high-end defensive cybersecurity use through Daybreak.
July 20262
Jul 9, 2026
GPT-5.6 model family became generally availableModel release
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna broadly across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
Jul 8, 2026
GPT-Live-1 model family releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini for low-latency, natively multimodal voice and realtime interaction.
June 20261
Jun 26, 2026
GPT-5.6 Sol limited preview announcedModel release
OpenAI began a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol and previewed the Terra and Luna variants.
April 20263
Apr 26, 2026
Sora product discontinuedModel deprecation
OpenAI discontinued the standalone Sora product as its video strategy shifted to newer experiences and models.
Apr 23, 2026
GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro as upgraded frontier models for complex knowledge work and reasoning.
Apr 21, 2026
ChatGPT Images 2.0 releasedModel release
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 with stronger world knowledge, instruction following, detail, and an images-with-thinking mode.
March 20262
Mar 17, 2026
GPT-5.4 mini and nano releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano as smaller, lower-latency variants.
Mar 5, 2026
GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Pro releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Pro for professional work, coding, computer use, and long-context tasks.
February 20262
Feb 12, 2026
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark research preview releasedModel release
OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller model optimized for near-real-time coding.
Feb 5, 2026
GPT-5.3-Codex releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, an interactive agentic coding model for complex software and professional work.
December 20252
Dec 18, 2025
GPT-5.2-Codex releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex, an agentic coding model optimized for long-horizon software engineering.
Dec 11, 2025
GPT-5.2 releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-5.2 with improvements for professional knowledge work and long-context tasks.
November 20251
Nov 13, 2025
GPT-5.1 releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-5.1 for developers with improved coding, steerability, and agentic performance.
September 20251
Sep 30, 2025
Sora 2 releasedModel release
OpenAI released Sora 2, a video and audio generation model with improved physical realism and control.
August 20252
Aug 7, 2025
GPT-5 model family releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-5 across ChatGPT and the API, including mini, nano, and Pro variants.
Aug 5, 2025
gpt-oss open-weight models releasedOpen weights
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b under an open-weight license.
June 20251
Jun 10, 2025
OpenAI o3-pro releasedModel release
OpenAI released o3-pro for more reliable reasoning by using additional compute.
April 20254
Apr 23, 2025
GPT Image 1 released in the APIModel release
OpenAI released its native multimodal image-generation model gpt-image-1 through the API.
Apr 16, 2025
OpenAI o4-mini releasedModel release
OpenAI released o4-mini, a smaller reasoning model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.
Apr 16, 2025
OpenAI o3 releasedModel release
OpenAI released o3, a reasoning model with strong performance across coding, mathematics, science, and visual tasks.
Apr 14, 2025
GPT-4.1 model family releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano in the API with improved coding and instruction following.
March 20251
Mar 25, 2025
Native GPT-4o image generation launchedModel update
OpenAI launched native image generation in GPT-4o for precise, context-aware image creation and editing.
February 20251
Feb 27, 2025
GPT-4.5 research preview releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview in ChatGPT and the API.
January 20251
Jan 31, 2025
OpenAI o3-mini releasedModel release
OpenAI released o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model optimized for science, mathematics, and coding.
December 20241
Dec 5, 2024
OpenAI o1 releasedModel release
OpenAI released the full o1 reasoning model in ChatGPT and announced related API improvements.
September 20241
Sep 12, 2024
OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini releasedModel release
OpenAI released its first o-series reasoning models, o1-preview and o1-mini.
July 20241
Jul 18, 2024
GPT-4o mini releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-4o mini as a lower-cost small multimodal model.
May 20241
May 13, 2024
GPT-4o releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-4o, an omni model designed for real-time reasoning across audio, vision, and text.
February 20241
Feb 15, 2024
Sora research preview announcedModel release
OpenAI introduced Sora, a text-to-video model, as a research preview for red teamers and selected creators.
January 20241
Jan 25, 2024
Third-generation embedding models releasedModel release
OpenAI released text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large with improved performance and new dimension controls.
November 20231
Nov 6, 2023
GPT-4 Turbo announced at DevDayModel release
OpenAI announced GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K context window, newer knowledge, and lower API pricing.
October 20231
Oct 19, 2023
DALL-E 3 launched in ChatGPT Plus and EnterpriseModel release
OpenAI made DALL-E 3 available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users.
March 20231
Mar 14, 2023
GPT-4 releasedModel release
OpenAI released GPT-4, a multimodal large model accepting image and text inputs and producing text outputs.
December 20221
Dec 15, 2022
text-embedding-ada-002 releasedModel release
OpenAI released text-embedding-ada-002, replacing multiple earlier embedding models with a more capable and lower-cost model.
September 20221
Sep 21, 2022
Whisper releasedOpen weights
OpenAI released Whisper, a multilingual speech-recognition model, together with model weights and inference code.
April 20221
Apr 6, 2022
DALL-E 2 introducedModel release
OpenAI introduced DALL-E 2 with higher-resolution image generation and editing capabilities.
January 20221
Jan 27, 2022
InstructGPT introducedModel release
OpenAI introduced instruction-following models trained with human feedback.
August 20211
Aug 10, 2021
OpenAI Codex introducedModel release
OpenAI introduced Codex, a descendant of GPT-3 that translates natural language into code.
January 20212
Jan 5, 2021
CLIP introducedModel release
OpenAI introduced CLIP, a neural network trained on image-text pairs for transferable visual recognition.
Jan 5, 2021
DALL-E introducedModel release
OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a model that generates images from text descriptions.
May 20201
May 28, 2020
GPT-3 research publishedModel release
OpenAI published GPT-3, demonstrating few-shot learning at 175 billion parameters.
April 20201
Apr 30, 2020
Jukebox releasedOpen weights
OpenAI released Jukebox, a neural network that generated music including rudimentary singing as raw audio.
November 20191
Nov 5, 2019
GPT-2 1.5B full model releasedOpen weights
OpenAI completed the staged GPT-2 release with the 1.5-billion-parameter model and accompanying research.
August 20191
Aug 20, 2019
GPT-2 774M model releasedModel update
OpenAI released the 774-million-parameter GPT-2 model and shared further analysis of misuse and detection.
April 20191
Apr 25, 2019
MuseNet introducedModel release
OpenAI introduced MuseNet, a deep neural network for generating multi-instrument musical compositions.

