Timeline
IPO delayed to 2027 due to market resistance and investor skepticism
Launched GPT-5.6 Sol under US government restricted access
Launched GPT-5.6 as three tiers: Sol, Terra, and Luna
GPT-5.6 preview release gated by government approval per customer
White House orders OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6 releases per customer
OpenAI and Broadcom co-developing custom AI inference chip to reduce Nvidia dependency and cut token prices.
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.
Made Music-2.6 model available for free on Cloudflare's platform for one week.