Timeline
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
Released significant update for JetBrains IDEs with Codex agent, MCP management, and approval controls
Released Spec Kit, an open-source toolkit for specification-first AI coding workflows.
GitHub launches Spec-Kit, an open-source toolkit for generating technical specifications from natural language.
GitHub Secret Scanning MCP Server reached GA
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OpenAI Open-Sources Agents SDK, Supports 100+ LLMs
Apr 18, 2026AI Engineer Henry Ndubuaku Releases Open-Source 'Maths, CS & AI Compendium' Textbook
Mar 27, 2026Claude Octopus: GitHub Tool Enables Claude Code to Run Gemini and Codex Simultaneously
Mar 16, 2026MCP Hits 10K Servers, 97M Monthly SDK Downloads by May 2026
Jun 18, 2026Karpathy's LLM Wiki Hits 5k Stars, Gains Memory Lifecycle Extension
Apr 12, 2026Heretic AI Tool Claims to Remove LLM Guardrails in Under an Hour
Mar 7, 2026OpenAI Targets First 'AI Intern' by September 2028, Building Toward Autonomous Researchers
Mar 20, 2026OpenAI Consolidates ChatGPT, AI Browser, and Codex into Desktop 'Super App' Workspace
Mar 20, 2026