Timeline
IPO delayed to 2027 due to market resistance and investor skepticism
OpenAI signed a 20-year lease for the PORTS-Pike campus in Ohio with SB Energy.
Kimi K3 becomes accessible inside Claude Code via OpenRouter
OpenAI Codex reached 15 million users
13 senior leaders departed OpenAI in 2026, including CRO Denise Dresser, Sora head Bill Peebles, and safety lead Johannes Heidecke.
Launched Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x speed and 750 tokens/s
Launched GPT-5.6-Cyber for cybersecurity defense
Released Kimi K3, a 1.56 trillion parameter MoE model
Open-weight release of Kimi K3 scheduled to offload compute demand
Promised open-weight release of Kimi K3 by July 27, 2026
Ecosystem
Moonshot AI
OpenAI
Evidence (4 articles)
Kimi 2.6 Thinking Shows Promise as Open Weights Model, Lags Behind Closed SoTA
Apr 21, 2026Moonshot AI's Kimi WebBridge Lets Agent Use Your Logged-In Sessions
May 20, 2026Moonshot AI Releases 1.56T-Parameter Kimi K3, Requires 2x B200 Nodes
Jul 27, 2026Cursor's Composer 2.5 matches Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 at fraction of cost
May 18, 2026