
Product line release timeline
Generational evolution by product line · dot = one model release · dashed line connects successive generations · click a dot to open the model page
Published models
84 modelsModels published by OpenAI, grouped into 32 series.
ChatGPT
- First
- 2022-11-30
- Latest
- 2026-07-08
- Span
- 1317 days
- Models
- 4
GPT-5.6
- First
- 2026-06-26
- Latest
- 2026-06-26
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 3
GPT-5.5
- First
- 2026-04-01
- Latest
- 2026-04-23
- Span
- 23 days
- Models
- 3
GPT Image 2
- First
- 2026-04-21
- Latest
- 2026-04-21
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
GPT-5.4
- First
- 2026-03-05
- Latest
- 2026-03-17
- Span
- 13 days
- Models
- 4
GPT-5.3
- First
- 2026-02-05
- Latest
- 2026-03-01
- Span
- 25 days
- Models
- 4
GPT-5.2
- First
- 2025-12-11
- Latest
- 2026-02-10
- Span
- 62 days
- Models
- 5
GPT-4o
- First
- 2024-05-13
- Latest
- 2025-12-15
- Span
- 582 days
- Models
- 10
GPT Realtime
- First
- 2025-08-28
- Latest
- 2025-12-15
- Span
- 110 days
- Models
- 2
GPT-5.1
- First
- 2025-11-12
- Latest
- 2025-11-20
- Span
- 9 days
- Models
- 6
GPT-5
- First
- 2025-08-07
- Latest
- 2025-11-07
- Span
- 93 days
- Models
- 6
GPT Image 1
- First
- 2025-04-24
- Latest
- 2025-10-08
- Span
- 168 days
- Models
- 3
Sora 2
- First
- 2025-09-30
- Latest
- 2025-09-30
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
GPT OSS 120B
- First
- 2025-08-06
- Latest
- 2025-08-06
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
GPT OSS 20B
- First
- 2025-08-06
- Latest
- 2025-08-06
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
o3
- First
- 2025-01-31
- Latest
- 2025-07-20
- Span
- 171 days
- Models
- 7
o4
- First
- 2025-04-16
- Latest
- 2025-04-16
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
GPT-4.1
- First
- 2025-04-14
- Latest
- 2025-04-14
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 3
GPT-4.5
- First
- 2025-02-28
- Latest
- 2025-02-28
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
o1
- First
- 2024-09-12
- Latest
- 2024-12-05
- Span
- 85 days
- Models
- 2
GPT-4
- First
- 2023-03-14
- Latest
- 2023-09-25
- Span
- 196 days
- Models
- 2
DALL·E
- First
- 2021-02-24
- Latest
- 2023-09-21
- Span
- 940 days
- Models
- 3
Shap-E
- First
- 2023-05-03
- Latest
- 2023-05-03
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
Point-E
- First
- 2022-12-16
- Latest
- 2022-12-16
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
Whisper
- First
- 2022-09-21
- Latest
- 2022-12-09
- Span
- 80 days
- Models
- 2
GPT-3.5
- First
- 2022-11-30
- Latest
- 2022-11-30
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
InstructGPT
- First
- 2022-03-04
- Latest
- 2022-03-04
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
Codex
- First
- 2021-08-10
- Latest
- 2021-08-10
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
CLIP
- First
- 2021-01-05
- Latest
- 2021-01-05
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
GPT-3
- First
- 2020-05-28
- Latest
- 2020-05-28
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
GPT-2
- First
- 2019-02-14
- Latest
- 2019-02-14
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
GPT-1
- First
- 2018-06-11
- Latest
- 2018-06-11
- Span
- 1 days
- Models
- 1
About this organization
Organization Overview
OpenAI is the world's most influential artificial intelligence research and product company, headquartered in San Francisco, USA. Its mission is to ensure that general artificial intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Its representative products include the conversation assistant ChatGPT, the GPT series large language model, the image-generation models DALL·E and GPT-Image, the video generation model Sora, the programming model Codex and the speech recognition model Whisper, which have almost defined the product form of contemporary generative AI.
Creation and Development
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December 2015, co-founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and others, initially as a non-profit research organization, receiving up to $1 billion in funding commitments during the startup phase.
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2019 Switched to a "capped-profit" structure and established in-depth cooperation with Microsoft: Microsoft provided Azure computing power support and obtained commercial authorization for models such as GPT.
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ChatGPT was released in November 2022, and the number of users exceeded one million within 5 days of going online, setting off a global wave of generative AI.
Flagship model
As of mid-2026, OpenAI's flagship large model has been iterated to the GPT-5.5 series (including GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Pro, GPT-5.5 Instant, etc.), and has formed a complete model matrix:
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Programming: GPT-5.5 Codex and other Codex series
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Multimodal/Visual: GPT-Image-2, Sora 2 video generation
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Open Source: GPT-OSS 20B/120B inference model
Latest Development (2026)
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Completed the largest financing in company history, with a valuation of approximately US$852 billion.
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ChatGPT has more than **900 million weekly active users, more than 50 million paid subscribers, and monthly revenue of approximately US$2.6 billion.
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CEO Sam Altman says the company plans to launch an IPO within a year.
Leader: Sam Altman (CEO) Official website: openai.com
Note: The financing, valuation and user data in this section are public information as of mid-2026 and may change over time.