IPO delayed to 2027 due to market resistance and investor skepticism

13 senior leaders departed OpenAI in 2026, including CRO Denise Dresser, Sora head Bill Peebles, and safety lead Johannes Heidecke.

OpenAI Codex reached 15 million users

Launched Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x speed and 750 tokens/s

GPT-5.6-Cyber found two Chrome zero-day vulnerabilities

Launched GPT-5.6-Cyber for cybersecurity defense

MiniMax launched H3 video generation model, ranking #1 in video editing benchmarks

M3 model exceeded human gold-medal threshold on math benchmarks using MaxProof framework.

Published research paper on MiniMax-M2 series, designed end-to-end for agentic deployment with agent-driven data pipelines

Confirmed Minimax M3 model will launch in May 2026.