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on information from connected apps and files. [ 44 ] ChatGPT Health On January 7, 2026, OpenAI introduced a feature called "ChatGPT Health", whereby ChatGPT can discuss the user's health in a way that is separate from other chats. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] The feature is not available for users in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or the European Economic Area (EEA), [ 46 ] and is available on a waitlist basis

o its chatbots and copyright infringement against authors and media companies. Several US states have sued, alleging harm to children, claiming it coaches self-harm and encourages delusions. [ 16 ] In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO , citing a lack of confidence, but reinstated him five days later after a board reconstruction. In 2024, roughly half of OpenAI's AI safety res

kman Trevor Blackwell (et al.) [ a ] Headquarters 1455 and 1515 Third Street , San Francisco , California, U.S. [ 2 ] Key people Bret Taylor ( chairman ) Sam Altman ( CEO ) Greg Brockman ( president and CEO of Applications) [ 3 ] Sarah Friar ( CFO ) [ 4 ] Products ChatGPT GPT-6 OpenAI Codex GPT Image Deep Research Agents ChatGPT Atlas ChatGPT Health Revenue US$ 13.1 billion [ 5 ] (2025) Net income

lot OpenAI Five SearchGPT Sora Whisper Foundation models OpenAI Codex Generative pre-trained transformer GPT-1 GPT-2 GPT-3 GPT-4 GPT-4o o1 People CEOs Sam Altman removal Mira Murati Emmett Shear Board of directors Current Sam Altman Adam D'Angelo Sue Desmond-Hellmann Paul Nakasone Nicole Seligman Fidji Simo Lawrence Summers Bret Taylor Former Greg Brockman (2017–2023) Reid Hoffman (2019–2023) Will

GPT to search the web in an attempt to make more accurate and up-to-date responses. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] It increased OpenAI's direct competition with major search engines . [ 21 ] OpenAI allows businesses to tailor how their content appears in the ChatGPT Search results and influence what sources are used. [ 21 ] In October 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas , a browser integrating the ChatGPT assistan

llennium Prize Problem in mathematics. Founding Former headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco In December 2015, OpenAI was founded as the nonprofit organization OpenAI, Inc., [ 19 ] by Elon Musk , Sam Altman , Ilya Sutskever , Greg Brockman , Trevor Blackwell , Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy , Durk Kingma , John Schulman , Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba , with Musk and Altman as

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s limited to purchases on Etsy from US users with a payment method linked to their OpenAI account. OpenAI takes an undisclosed cut from the merchant's payment. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] OpenAI also added capabilities to connect ChatGPT with productivity software such as Gmail . [ 43 ] In July 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can create presentations, spreadsheets and other documents based

specifically generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) – to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts . ChatGPT accelerated the ongoing AI boom , a period marked by rapid investment and public attention toward the field of artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI operates the service on a freemium model. Users can interact with ChatGPT through text, audio, and image prompts. ChatG

everywhere else. [ 45 ] To implement the feature, OpenAI partnered with data connectivity infrastructure company b.well. [ 47 ] Advertisements An advertisement for The Times on ChatGPT On 17 January 2026, OpenAI announced that it would start testing advertisements in its free version for logged-in, adult US users. This aims to bring in more revenue, as OpenAI has committed to spend $1.4 trillion

to reduce the risk of harmful outputs being presented to users. [ 15 ] In March 2023, OpenAI added support for plugins for ChatGPT. [ 16 ] This includes plugins made by OpenAI – such as web browsing and code interpretation – as well as external plugins from developers such as Expedia , OpenTable , and Zapier . [ 17 ] From October to December 2024, ChatGPT Search was deployed. [ 18 ] It allows Chat

t to legally attract investment from venture funds and compensate employees with equity as competing AI companies did. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Microsoft subsequently invested $1 billion in OpenAI LP, and OpenAI's services were migrated to Microsoft Azure . [ 47 ] Since then, OpenAI systems have run on an Azure-based supercomputing platform. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] The 2019 restructuring made the nonprofit OpenAI, Inc

partly because of the very strong group of people and, to a very large extent, because of its mission." [ 20 ] OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba stated that he turned down "borderline crazy" offers of two to three times his market value to join OpenAI instead. [ 20 ] In April 2016, OpenAI released a public beta of "OpenAI Gym", its platform for reinforcement learning research. [ 36 ] Nvidia gifte

OpenAI rogue agent breach Black October Glossary v t e OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco , California, led by CEO Sam Altman . [ 9 ] It develops "frontier" generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models . Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 accelerat

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used to verify that they are AI-generated. OpenAI has emplaced additional safeguards to prevent what the company deems to be harmful image generation. [ 34 ] Agents In 2025, OpenAI added several features to make ChatGPT more agentic (capable of autonomously performing longer tasks). In January, Operator was released. It was capable of autonomously performing tasks through web browser interactions

8 ] [ 39 ] Like Operator, it controls a virtual computer. It also inherits from Deep Research's ability to gather and summarize significant volumes of information. The user can interrupt tasks or provide additional instructions as needed. [ 38 ] [ 40 ] In September 2025, OpenAI partnered with Stripe to release Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling purchases through ChatGPT. At launch, the feature wa

itch to for-profit status was inconsistent with OpenAI's claims to be "democratizing" AI. [ 50 ] Conversion to public benefit corporation OpenAI's corporate structure, as of May 2026 In December 2024, OpenAI proposed a restructuring plan to convert the capped-profit into a Delaware-based public benefit corporation (PBC), remove its profit cap, and release it from the control of the nonprofit. [ 44

eland's attempts to preserve the Icelandic language . [ 23 ] In December 2023, the Albanian government decided to use ChatGPT for the rapid translation of European Union documents and the analysis of required changes needed for Albania's accession to the EU. [ 24 ] GPTs and plugins Main article: GPT Store In November 2023, OpenAI released GPT Builder, a tool allowing users to customize ChatGPT's b

, including filling forms, placing online orders, scheduling appointments, and other browser-based tasks. It was controlling a software environment inside a virtual machine with limited internet connectivity and with safety restrictions. [ 35 ] It struggled with complex user interfaces. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] In May 2025, OpenAI introduced an agent for coding named Codex . It is capable of writing software

cularly the use of copyrighted content as training data, have also drawn criticism. Features ChatGPT is a chatbot based on large language models . [ 5 ] It can for example write and debug computer programs; [ 6 ] compose music, teleplays , fairy tales, and student essays; answer test questions ; [ 7 ] generate business ideas; [ 8 ] translate and summarize text; [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and control computers.

ed a staggering $122 billion from investors including Amazon.com Inc., SoftBank Group Corp. and Nvidia Corp. at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. It was assumed at the time that the money would be enough to keep the company going until it could finalize the details of its long-awaited IPO, and it duly filed its confidential prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June in pr

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, San Francisco , California , U.S. [ 3 ] Key people Greg Brockman ( chairman & president ) Sam Altman ( CEO ) Ilya Sutskever ( chief scientist ) Mira Murati ( CTO ) Products GPT-4 DALL-E OpenAI Five ChatGPT OpenAI Codex Revenue 25,000,000,000 United States dollar (2026) Total assets 22,678,253 United States dollar (2023) Number of employees circa</span>"}]]}'>c. 375 (2023) [ 4 ] Website openai .c

, answering codebase questions, running tests, and proposing pull requests . It is based on a fine-tuned version of OpenAI o3 . It has two versions, one running in a virtual machine in the cloud, and one where the agent runs in the cloud, but performs actions on a local machine connected via API. [ 37 ] In July 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT agent, an AI agent that can perform multi-step tasks. [ 3

ehavior for a specific use case. [ 25 ] The customized systems are referred to as GPTs . In January 2024, OpenAI launched the GPT Store , a marketplace for GPTs. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 25 ] At launch, OpenAI included more than three million GPTs created by GPT Builder users in the GPT Store. [ 28 ] In September 2025, OpenAI added support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) to ChatGPT apps. When enabled in d

ed an AI boom , leading to widespread use of generative AI; as of September 2026 [ update ] , ChatGPT is the fifth-most-visited website globally. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] OpenAI also releases the GPT Image models and Codex , an AI coding agent . In March 2026, OpenAI closed a funding round with a post-money valuation of US$852 billion, [ 12 ] making it one of the most valuable AI pure play companies in the w

eveloper mode, this allows for improved third-party access to ChatGPT tools and servers. [ 29 ] In July 2026, ChatGPT apps were renamed to plugins. [ 30 ] Deep Research Main article: ChatGPT Deep Research In February 2025, OpenAI released Deep Research, a feature that generates reports based on extensive web searches. It was initially based on the reasoning model o3 and took from 3 to 30 minutes p

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ch Medicare breach Navier–Stokes priority controversy OpenAI bulk release of mathematical papers People Sam Altman Greg Brockman Jessica Livingston Peter Thiel Elon Musk Andrej Karpathy Concepts Hallucination Large language model Word embedding Training v t e ChatGPT is a generative AI chatbot developed by OpenAI . Originally released on November 30, 2022, the product uses large language models –

omputing Available in 59 languages [ 3 ] Type Chatbot , LLM , GPT License Proprietary service Website chatgpt .com Part of a series on OpenAI Products ChatGPT Search Deep Research GPTs DALL-E Sora Whisper Models GPT-1 GPT-2 GPT-3 GPT-4 GPT-4o GPT-4.5 GPT-4.1 GPT-5 GPT-5.1 GPT-5.2 GPT-5.4 GPT-5.5 GPT-5.6 GPT-6 GPT-6.1 o1 o3 o4-mini Incidents Removal of Sam Altman 2026 cyberattacks Hugging Face brea

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