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84 models tracked · latest release 2026-07-08

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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

Models
45
Time span
356days
Avg. gap
8.1days

Published models

84 models

Models published by OpenAI, grouped into 32 series.

ChatGPT

Speech models2Reasoning models1Foundation models1
First
2022-11-30
Latest
2026-07-08
Span
1317 days
Models
4

GPT-5.6

Reasoning models3
First
2026-06-26
Latest
2026-06-26
Span
1 days
Models
3

GPT-5.5

Reasoning models2Other models1
First
2026-04-01
Latest
2026-04-23
Span
23 days
Models
3

GPT Image 2

Multimodal models1
First
2026-04-21
Latest
2026-04-21
Span
1 days
Models
1

GPT-5.4

Multimodal models3Reasoning models1
First
2026-03-05
Latest
2026-03-17
Span
13 days
Models
4

GPT-5.3

Other models1Foundation models1Coding models2
First
2026-02-05
Latest
2026-03-01
Span
25 days
Models
4

GPT-5.2

Other models1Coding models1Chat models2Reasoning models1
First
2025-12-11
Latest
2026-02-10
Span
62 days
Models
5

GPT Realtime

Multimodal models2
First
2025-08-28
Latest
2025-12-15
Span
110 days
Models
2

GPT-5

Coding models2Foundation models2Reasoning models2
First
2025-08-07
Latest
2025-11-07
Span
93 days
Models
6

GPT Image 1

Multimodal models1Vision models2
First
2025-04-24
Latest
2025-10-08
Span
168 days
Models
3

Sora 2

Multimodal models1
First
2025-09-30
Latest
2025-09-30
Span
1 days
Models
1

GPT OSS 120B

Reasoning models1
First
2025-08-06
Latest
2025-08-06
Span
1 days
Models
1

GPT OSS 20B

Reasoning models1
First
2025-08-06
Latest
2025-08-06
Span
1 days
Models
1

o4

Reasoning models1
First
2025-04-16
Latest
2025-04-16
Span
1 days
Models
1

GPT-4.1

Chat models3
First
2025-04-14
Latest
2025-04-14
Span
1 days
Models
3

GPT-4.5

Chat models1
First
2025-02-28
Latest
2025-02-28
Span
1 days
Models
1

o1

Reasoning models2
First
2024-09-12
Latest
2024-12-05
Span
85 days
Models
2

GPT-4

Multimodal models1Foundation models1
First
2023-03-14
Latest
2023-09-25
Span
196 days
Models
2
Multimodal models

DALL·E

Multimodal models2Foundation models1
First
2021-02-24
Latest
2023-09-21
Span
940 days
Models
3

Shap-E

Foundation models1
First
2023-05-03
Latest
2023-05-03
Span
1 days
Models
1

Point-E

Foundation models1
First
2022-12-16
Latest
2022-12-16
Span
1 days
Models
1

Whisper

Foundation models2
First
2022-09-21
Latest
2022-12-09
Span
80 days
Models
2

GPT-3.5

Chat models1
First
2022-11-30
Latest
2022-11-30
Span
1 days
Models
1

InstructGPT

Foundation models1
First
2022-03-04
Latest
2022-03-04
Span
1 days
Models
1

Codex

Coding models1
First
2021-08-10
Latest
2021-08-10
Span
1 days
Models
1

CLIP

Foundation models1
First
2021-01-05
Latest
2021-01-05
Span
1 days
Models
1

GPT-3

Foundation models1
First
2020-05-28
Latest
2020-05-28
Span
1 days
Models
1

GPT-2

Foundation models1
First
2019-02-14
Latest
2019-02-14
Span
1 days
Models
1

GPT-1

Foundation models1
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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • Programming: GPT-5.5 Codex and other Codex series

  • Multimodal/Visual: GPT-Image-2, Sora 2 video generation

  • Open Source: GPT-OSS 20B/120B inference model

Latest Development (2026)

  • Completed the largest financing in company history, with a valuation of approximately US$852 billion.

  • ChatGPT has more than **900 million weekly active users, more than 50 million paid subscribers, and monthly revenue of approximately US$2.6 billion.

  • 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.