Mattel and OpenAI announced a strategic collaboration on June 12, 2025, to develop AI-powered toys and experiences expected to launch later this year. The Barbie maker will utilise OpenAI's technology to "bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences" with an emphasis on innovation, privacy,
OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that control of the company will remain with its non-profit entity following discussions with California's and Delaware's attorneys general. Instead of the current structure where the non-profit board oversees for-profit operations, OpenAI's for-profit arm will become a public
On May 16, 2025, OpenAI announced its latest development, Codex, a cloud-based software engineering assistant capable of working on multiple tasks simultaneously. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of OpenAI's o3 model specifically optimized for software development. This development marks an important milestone in the field of
OpenAI and former iPhone designer Jony Ive are developing a revolutionary AI device through a $6.4 billion partnership that will function as a third core device alongside smartphones and computers. Sam Altman describes the prototype as "the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen,
Netflix began testing a new artificial intelligence-powered search engine in April 2025, based on OpenAI's technology. As Bloomberg announced on 13 April 2025, the streaming giant has made this new tool available only to certain subscribers for now, who must explicitly opt in to use the feature. The
OpenAI announced in early April 2025 that it is participating in a $43 million Series A funding round for New York-based Adaptive Security, marking the company's first investment in the cybersecurity sector. The funding, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the OpenAI Startup Fund, aims to develop defences
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed at the TED2025 conference on 11 April 2025 that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, representing approximately 10% of the world's population. The company's image generation feature launched on 25 March has driven extraordinary growth, with the platform gaining
On 16 April 2025, OpenAI officially launched Codex CLI, an open-source coding tool that runs in the terminal and transforms natural language instructions into executable code. The new tool integrates OpenAI's advanced language models, including o3 and o4-mini, with local coding and computing tasks, enabling developers to perform
On 16 April 2025, OpenAI officially announced the o3 and o4-mini models, representing a new generation of reasoning models capable of autonomously utilising the full suite of ChatGPT tools for the first time, including web search, Python code execution, visual analysis, and image generation. The o3 model set a new
OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models released in April 2025 have significantly higher hallucination rates than their predecessors – according to the company's own tests, o3 hallucinated 33% of the time while o4-mini hallucinated 48% during the PersonQA evaluation. This development marks a surprising turn, as previous models
On 2 April 2025, OpenAI introduced PaperBench, a novel performance evaluation system designed to assess AI agents’ capabilities in replicating cutting-edge artificial intelligence research. Developed as part of the OpenAI Preparedness Framework, which measures AI systems’ readiness for complex tasks, PaperBench specifically challenges AI agents to accurately replicate 20 significant
In a study published on 8 April 2025, researchers from Semmelweis University demonstrated that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model achieved a 93% accuracy rate in identifying acne and rosacea, while Google’s Gemini Flash 2.0 model correctly identified these skin conditions in only 21% of cases. The scientific study used
