OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, its most expensive model ever and the first it calls "AGI era." It saturates frontier math and reasoning benchmarks, at a price to match.
OpenAI's new enterprise platform, Presence, lets companies deploy governed voice and chat agents, it already resolves 75% of OpenAI's own support calls.
OpenAI closed a record $122B round at an $852B valuation and is reportedly heading for an IPO. Its scale now shapes the whole AI tools market.
OpenAI makes GPT-5.5 the default in ChatGPT with more natural answers and fewer hallucinations, while older GPT-5.2 and GPT-4.5 models are retired.