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Learn how to use ChatGPT, start your first conversation, and discover simple ways to write, brainstorm, and solve problems with AI.
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Most people think of the waterfront as the edge of the city. A team of MIT researchers sees it as a dynamic, Lego-like construction site. Their new system, called “FloatForm,” is a swarm of small square robotic boats that assemble themselves into larger structures on the water, break apart, and reassemble into something new, all with minimal human direction. Each robot, about the size of a dinner plate at 21 centimeters square, is a self-contained vessel with its own thrusters, sensors, and magnetic latches. Together, they hint at a future…
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Today, OpenAI announced GPT‑5.6, which will become the new preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot—in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat and Cowork. For Microsoft 365 customers, the update brings OpenAI's latest flagship model series at the time of this announcement into productivity tools people use every day, helping them create, analyze, and collaborate with more capable AI assistance across workstreams. GPT‑5.6, OpenAI’s latest flagship model series at the time of this announcement, delivers more useful work from every token, with stronger performance per dollar and on demand capability for the most…
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As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen our safeguards for advanced AI capabilities in biology, we’re evolving our GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty to become an ongoing private program—the OpenAI Bio Bounty Program. The program will remain focused on universal jailbreaks that can defeat our predefined biosafety challenge against OpenAI’s frontier models, starting with GPT‑5.6 and going forward. We’re also excited to announce that we’re increasing reward amounts. The reward for a universal jailbreak for
Automation & Agents
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ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work. Introducing ChatGPT Work, an agent in ChatGPT that helps you take on more ambitious tasks. It can gather information across your apps and workflows to create finished materials like sheets, slides, docs, and web apps, and stay with complex projects for hours by breaking them into smaller steps and completing them independently. With Codex technology built-in, ChatGPT can now move beyond…
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More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work. Update on August 21, 2026: OpenAI dropped the API and credit pricing of GPT‑5.6 Sol by over 20% for the next 3 months. Update on July 30, 2026: OpenAI reduced the price of GPT‑5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT‑5.6 Terra by 20%. Learn more here. We’re launching the GPT‑5.6 family of models for general availability following our limited preview: our new flagship, Sol, alongside Terra, a balanced model for everyday work, and…
Safety & Security
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Governments are beginning to use frontier AI systems for increasingly important work, including in national security. That creates new imperatives for AI labs, governments, and civil society to work together on how these tools should be used in sensitive settings. We believe democratic societies should be able to use AI to protect people, defend critical infrastructure, deliver public services, and respond to emerging threats, including in areas like cyber defense and biological security where AI can meaningfully advantage defenders. But increasingly capable AI systems must be deployed in ways that…
Coding & Development
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A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating…
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Every day, K–12 teachers, administrators, district leaders, and school communities help students learn, grow, and prepare for the future. They are also being asked to navigate rapid technological change while managing limited time, growing responsibilities, and uneven access to practical support. That’s why OpenAI Academy, in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation, will host a flagship AI Skills Jam for K–12 Educators this summer to offer a hands-on, high-trust environment where teachers and administrators can move from curiosity to practical use. Building on the success of the Nonprofit AI Jam…
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A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice. Update July 31, 2026: Supported audio generated with GPT‑Live through ChatGPT Voice and the OpenAI API now includes SynthID watermarking. Our public verification tool can now detect OpenAI provenance signals in supported audio files, and we’ve introduced API access for verification so developers and organizations can incorporate provenance checks into their own workflows. These updates build on the safety approach described below and our broader work to make OpenAI-generated content easier to identify. We’re launching GPT‑Live,…
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Professor Jesse Thaler has been named director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS), effective Aug. 1. He succeeds Professor Bolek Wyslouch, who directed LNS for the past decade. Thaler is a theoretical particle physicist who combines techniques from quantum field theory and machine learning to address outstanding questions in fundamental physics. “In his research, Jesse has done pioneering work on particle jets at the Large Hadron Collider and is a leader in combining AI and machine learning with fundamental particle physics,” says Nergis Mavalvala, dean of the MIT…
Business use
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With ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, AP+ teams save time, improve work quality, and investigate complex payments issues faster. to build working simulations with Codex, down from what could previously take days to weeks investigation time for complex reconciliation issues using Codex, down from 4 hours previously Australian Payments Plus, or AP+, operates payments and identity infrastructure across Australia. It sits at the center of the payments ecosystem, supporting products and services used by millions of people every day. Its teams work across scheme rules, technical specifications, member obligations, operational processes,…
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