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OpenAI's flagship consumer assistant, now running GPT-6 Sol and Luna alongside GPT-6 Astra and the GPT-5 family, with advanced voice, cross-chat memory, Projects, image and video generation, and agentic Agent Mode. The largest consumer AI product in the world.
Latest update Sep 25, 2026
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1B+ weekly active users (as of late Jul 2026, up from 900M+ in early 2026) and ~50M paying subscribers as of early 2026. GPT-6 Sol and Luna launched September 22, 2026 in ChatGPT Work and Codex for paid plans, with Luna also rolling to Free and Go users; GPT-6 Astra remains the paid flagship after its September 3 Daybreak launch. On September 10, 2026 OpenAI paused new Pro ($200/month) signups because Astra demand exceeded capacity; API, Go and Plus stayed open. ChatGPT Ads now reach Free and Go users in more than 60 countries after the September 24 Southeast Asia and Taiwan expansion.
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Announced next steps from OpenAI that mention ChatGPT.
2026-2027
On September 10, 2026 OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, an institution-wide ChatGPT Enterprise plan that pairs GPT-6 Astra with licensed data from LSEG, PitchBook, Daloopa and other providers for investment banking and equity research. Morgan Stanley and Evercore were design partners. Watch first paying firm deployments, whether the workspace-wide (no mixed seats) constraint holds, and whether coverage expands past IB and equity research.
Q4 2026
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026 and began rolling it across paid ChatGPT, Enterprise and the API. On September 10 it paused new signups and upgrades to the $200 ChatGPT Pro plan (Pro 20X), citing unprecedented Astra demand, while leaving the $100 Pro tier, Plus, Go, API and existing $200 subscribers in place. The next milestone is restoring Pro 20X signups once capacity catches up and completing the remaining paid and AWS rollout, with advanced offensive cyber tools still limited to trusted defenders under Daybreak Blue.
Mid-2027
Having reached enterprise/consumer revenue parity roughly two quarters early (Aug 14, 2026), keep scaling agentic and enterprise products - Codex, ChatGPT Work, Presence, GPT-6 Astra and the expanding Daybreak cyber-defense line - to extend the annualized run-rate beyond its current $40B+ level; OpenAI's internal target has been reported around $62B by mid-2027. No newer run-rate figure has been disclosed since the mid-August $40B+ mark.
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Sep 23, 2026
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On September 16, 2026 OpenAI said it is testing Sponsored Agents, clearly labeled business-sponsored conversations launched from ChatGPT ads, and named HubSpot as its first CRM partner and Shopify as its first ecommerce partner. US Shopify merchants can create and manage campaigns in a ChatGPT Ads app today. OpenAI said the app will be available internationally in markets where ChatGPT Ads already run starting September 23, 2026. Watch whether that date holds, whether Sponsored Agents leave the US test, and whether ads become a material revenue line next to subscriptions and API usage.
Oct 1, 2026
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The OpenAI for Government and GSA multi-year deal announced September 10, 2026 runs from October 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028. It sets the license fee at $0 (from $15 per user per month), 50% off usage, and Daybreak Blue at 50% off for every verified federal, state, local, and tribal entity. Watch whether agencies actually onboard against the roughly 23 million eligible public-sector workforce.
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On Oct. 15, 2026 OpenAI opened the Rosalind Academic Plan for academic labs at US universities. Approved labs can receive up to 30 ChatGPT Business Standard seats at no cost for 12 months, with GPT-Rosalind access after a trusted-access review. The offer does not include API access, and OpenAI says research data from the plan is not used to train its models by default.
On October 14, 2026 attorneys general in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana sued OpenAI in separate state cases, alleging ChatGPT harmed children and that the company misled people about its safety. Iowa's petition, posted by the attorney general, brings consumer-fraud claims against OpenAI Group PBC, the OpenAI Foundation and related entities. OpenAI told NBC News it has age-specific protections and will keep working with states on industry-wide rules.
On Oct. 8, 2026 OpenAI said it banned ChatGPT accounts used in two false-front influence operations, one from Russia and one from Iran. OpenAI rated the Russian Dark Clark campaign Category 5 on its breakout scale, the first at that level in its reporting, and said the Iranian Bogus Bylines campaign placed almost 100 articles under seven fake journalist bylines. OpenAI said it shared the cases with authorities and could not identify the Iranian actor.
On Oct. 7, 2026 OpenAI said GPT-6 with Intelligent UI is rolling out globally in ChatGPT's Chat tab to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise, with Free and Go following the next day. Paid tiers use GPT-6 Sol and Free/Go use GPT-6 Luna; responses can include graphics, buttons, forms, and charts. Work and Codex models are unchanged. OpenAI said the ChatGPT GPT-6 model is built for more than 1.2 billion weekly ChatGPT users, a company figure.
OpenAI published a GitHub catalog of 722 manuscripts grouped into 372 result families that it says were produced by an unreleased internal frontier model. The company says the model was posed about 4,000 problems, that the average result used roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro-equivalent thinking, and that many proofs have Lean formalizations while some unformalized results could have issues. Scientific American reported the repository went live at 6 p.m. EDT on Oct. 6; OpenAI has not named or released the model.
On Oct. 5, 2026 OpenAI said it will test a new visual ChatGPT ad format during image generation later this month in the United States with an initial advertiser group. Ads will be labeled and kept separate from generated images, and OpenAI said advertising does not change ChatGPT answers. The company also expanded conversion and attribution partners and is piloting brand-suitability reviews with DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science.
On Oct. 5, 2026 OpenAI said API customers worldwide can opt in to textGrain text watermarking for select models, with the setting off by default. Over the coming weeks it will add an invisible watermark to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text in the European Union only, and it opened detector applications for approved researchers rather than the public. OpenAI said the EU AI Act requires machine-readable marking of generated text, and it is not making watermarking a global default at launch.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a temporary-injunction motion on September 28 in Highlands County Circuit Court seeking to bar OpenAI from developing new models without independent third-party safety approval and to cut off ChatGPT for minors in Florida. The 49-page request builds on the state's June 1 consumer-protection suit; a judge has not granted it. OpenAI spokesman Drew Pusateri said the company paused most-capable-model training on Friday and wants industry-wide state safety standards, not rules aimed at one company.
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At its September 29, 2026 DevDay keynote in San Francisco, OpenAI introduced Dots, an always-on agent that Business Insider said runs on GPT-6 Astra on a cloud computer and can use some tools when a user is not actively directing it. The Verge and Business Insider said Dots will first go to ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise users, unlike Meta's free Muse agent, and that OpenAI also announced a $500-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan for its fastest modes, said ChatGPT now has 1.2 billion weekly users, and revealed GPT-6.1 Sol as a cheaper model than Astra. OpenAI's own news pages were not readable from this run, so the full product list, plan name and GPT-6.1 Sol naming still need an official recap.
OpenAI will not ship GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation agent model planned for an October debut in ChatGPT and Codex, after internal tests found it fell short of the company's safety and alignment bar, the company confirmed on September 28. Head of safety systems Saachi Jain said the model improved on laziness but did not meet the bar on staying within scope and authorization or on how it reports the work it has done; the Wall Street Journal first reported the decision, and Reuters, CNBC and the BBC confirmed it with the company. This is a product-release hold, distinct from the September 20 DNS sandbox training pause already on the OpenAI file; GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna remain available, and DevDay is still scheduled for September 29.
OpenAI expanded the GPT-6 family on September 22, 2026 with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, cheaper models that it says carry much of GPT-6 Astra's capability. API docs list Sol at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens for complex coding and agentic work, and Luna at $0.10 and $0.50 for high-volume tasks. Both are in the API and in ChatGPT Work and Codex for paid plans; Luna is also rolling to Free and Go users, and GitHub added both models to Copilot.
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OpenAI said on September 16 that it is testing Sponsored Agents, which let someone who clicks an ad in ChatGPT open a conversation with a business-sponsored agent and then visit that business's site. The agents are labeled and kept separate from ChatGPT's own answers and from the user's original chat. OpenAI also added AI creative tools to Ads Manager, ad creation from a few prompts in ChatGPT Work, and its first CRM and ecommerce integrations: HubSpot customers can now build ads and follow up on leads inside HubSpot, and US Shopify merchants can run ChatGPT ad campaigns through a new Shopify App Store app that goes international on September 23.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a GPT-6 Astra product for bankers and equity researchers, with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners. The offering pulls structured data from LSEG, PitchBook, Daloopa, Crunchbase and Quartr, with planned integrations to FactSet, S&P Global, Preqin and Datasite. It is a separate vertical from the Agents API beta shipped the same week.
OpenAI paused new ChatGPT Pro ($200/month) signups after GPT-6 Astra drove more demand than expected, CTO Tibo Sottiaux said. API, Go and Plus remain open; the company did not give a reopen date. The pause is a capacity response to Astra, not a change to the Agents API or Financial Services launches.
OpenAI for Government and the U.S. General Services Administration announced a multi-year agreement on September 10, 2026 that drops the ChatGPT license fee to $0 from $15 per user per month and cuts usage costs 50% for federal, state, local, and tribal governments. The deal runs 27 months from October 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028 and extends eligibility across a public-sector workforce of about 23 million. Every verified government entity will be approved for Daybreak Blue at 50% off commercial pricing.
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OpenAI's prior frontier large-language-model family. GPT-5.5 (April 2026) was the broadly available flagship, built for agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work. GPT-5.6 - variants Sol, Terra and Luna - opened to the public on July 9, 2026 after an initial government-gated preview. GPT-6 Astra, launched September 3, 2026, is now the new flagship (see that product).
OpenAI's current flagship model, launched September 3, 2026. OpenAI calls it a generational leap for coding, computer use, science and cybersecurity, and the first model it has designated Critical for cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framework - meaning it can find previously unknown security flaws and exploit them without step-by-step human guidance. President Greg Brockman told reporters it is not unreasonable to feel the company is now in the AGI era.
A GPT-6 Astra product for bankers and equity researchers, launched September 10, 2026, with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners. Pulls structured data from LSEG, PitchBook, Daloopa, Crunchbase and Quartr, with planned integrations to FactSet, S&P Global, Preqin and Datasite.
Exposes the GPT-6 family (Astra, Sol and Luna), the GPT-5 family, Sora video, and agent tooling to developers. Codex is OpenAI's flagship agentic coding system, spanning a CLI, IDE extension, cloud task delegation and a GitHub bot. GPT-6 Sol and Luna became available in the API on September 22, 2026, and GitHub Copilot added both models the same day.
Managed enterprise platform for deploying governed AI agents over real-time voice and chat, covering customer support, sales and internal IT workflows with per-customer policies, guardrails and human-escalation rules.
OpenAI's cyber-defense program, offering purpose-trained security models to vetted defenders, government agencies and enterprises under a tiered 'Trusted Access for Cyber' governance framework. Expanded Aug 10, 2026 into two access tiers (Blue for defensive workflows, Red for authorized offensive/penetration testing) alongside a new GPT-5.6-Cyber model.
OpenAI's video-and-audio generation model, with synchronized dialogue and sound, multi-shot generation, and improved physical accuracy. Launched September 2025; the standalone consumer app was discontinued in April 2026, with the model continuing via the API.
OpenAI's first consumer hardware device, developed with Jony Ive following the ~$6.5B acquisition of io - a screenless, doughnut-shaped, voice-first AI 'companion' roughly the size of a hockey puck, intended to complement rather than replace the smartphone. Not yet launched.
GPT-6 Sol is OpenAI's GPT-6 model for complex coding and agentic workflows, with a 1,050,000-token context window, 128,000 max output tokens and an April 20, 2026 knowledge cutoff. Standard API text pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
GPT-6 Luna is OpenAI's most efficient GPT-6 model for focused, high-volume tasks, with a 1,050,000-token context window, 128,000 max output tokens and a May 18, 2026 knowledge cutoff. Standard API text pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.
Always-on ChatGPT agent introduced at DevDay on September 29, 2026. Business Insider said it runs on GPT-6 Astra on a cloud computer, is built for computer use across apps and websites, and can use some tools when a user is not actively directing it. The Verge reported initial access for ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise subscribers, with Muse remaining free. OpenAI said it plans to expand availability. An official openai.com product page was not retrieved.
A GPT-6 family model OpenAI positions as near-Astra performance for coding, computer use and professional work at lower token prices than GPT-6 Astra. Distinct from the Sept 22 GPT-6 Sol launch; API model id is gpt-6.1-sol.
OpenAI life sciences model. The Rosalind Academic Plan offers approved US university labs up to 30 Business Standard seats at no cost for 12 months, with model access after trusted-access review. The academic offer does not include API access.
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