Timeline
IPO delayed to 2027 due to market resistance and investor skepticism
GPT-5.6-Cyber found two Chrome zero-day vulnerabilities
Launched GPT-5.6-Cyber for cybersecurity defense
Alleged security breach where an MSS officer gained root access via irregular sandboxes.
Sam Altman announces OpenAI will fund frontier training through inference demand rather than high margins
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus/Pro and GPT-5.6 Luna for free tiers, unifying reasoning under a single model.
Released Cohere Transcribe Arabic, claiming world's most accurate open-source Arabic ASR model under Apache 2.0.
Coherent, Nokia, and JX Advanced Metals announced major capacity expansion plans for optical chip production
Full-year FY 2026 revenue guidance raised to $6.6B
New manufacturing capacity in Pennsylvania and Thailand for 800G transceivers