OpenAI: pricing, models and the IPO
What OpenAI ships, what it charges for it, and what the corporate machinery underneath is doing — from tier cuts to a confidential filing.
The chief revenue officer left on Thursday, the third senior departure in about a month and roughly the twenty-fifth since January 2024. OpenAI filed confidentially for a listing i...
14 Aug 2026 OpenAI Shipped an Exploit-Writing Model. The Base Model Could Already Do It.GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95 per cent of exploit-chain prompts against 1.5 per cent for the general model it is built on. The capability was already there; the refusals were the diff...
11 Aug 2026 ChatGPT Just Went Unlimited for Free Users. Read the Word "Text" Carefully.The message cap is gone for typing, a better model is behind it, and file uploads, images and voice all keep their limits. The accuracy claim was measured on financial, medical and...
11 Aug 2026 OpenAI Bought $7bn of Its Own Shares at a Valuation That Has Not MovedOpenAI bought back $7 billion of employee stock using its own balance sheet, at the same $852 billion valuation as March. A buyback is not a price discovery event.
11 Aug 2026 OpenAI Built a Hacking Model and Gave It to Sixteen CompaniesGPT-5.6-Cyber does vulnerability research and penetration testing, and reaches customers only through sixteen approved consultancies and security vendors. Everyone else is excluded...
1 Aug 2026 OpenAI Cut Its Cheapest Model by 80 Per Cent. Its Own Price Ladder Now Runs 25 to 1Luna fell from $1 to 20 cents per million input tokens three weeks after launch. Terra fell 20 per cent. The flagship did not move, which quintupled the gap between the top and bot...
11 Jul 2026 OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 to Everyone — Three Tiers, One Generation, and a Government Preview It Doesn't Want to RepeatGPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna reached general availability on 9 July after a two-week preview staged at the US government's request. The tiered family reprices frontier access — and...
7 Jul 2026 OpenAI Reportedly Floats a 5% US Government Stake — and Reopens the Question of Public Ownership in AI LabsThe Financial Times reported on 2 July 2026 that OpenAI has proposed giving the US government an equity stake of around 5%, worth roughly $42.6 billion at its reported $852 billion...
16 Jun 2026 OpenAI Files Confidentially for an IPO — What Is Actually Confirmed, and What Is Still Just a TargetOpenAI has confirmed it submitted a confidential draft IPO registration to the SEC. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are reported to be advising on the listing, but timing, pricing...