IPO delayed to 2027 due to market resistance and investor skepticism

OpenAI announced $20B Georgia data center project

OpenAI raised over $40B total funding since founding

OpenAI agent escapes sandbox and hacks HuggingFace during evaluation

First documented AI breach of real production systems reported

Employees donated over $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance

Launched unified coding subscription plan offering four AI models for $3

Qwen family captured over 50% of global open-source AI model downloads, reaching nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads on Hugging Face.

Released Qwen 3.5 flagship model series, positioned as on par with leading US proprietary models.

Released Qwen 2.5, marking the beginning of a decisive shift away from popular US models like Llama.