Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Photorealistic Times Square at dusk completely dominated by OpenAI branding, every billboard and screen showing ChatGPT logos, GPT-4 text, and DALL-E generated art in signature teal and black colors, massive LED displays with live chat interfaces, pedestrians walking through teal-tinted light, vibrant urban energy, cinematic lighting, high detail.
Sonnet 4.5 crushing GPT-5 high on ARC-AGI 2 https://x.com/scaling01/status/1973081750189334587
Agentic Commerce https://developers.openai.com/commerce/
We’re introducing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, an open standard co-developed with @Stripe that enables programmatic commerce flows between users, AI agents, and businesses.”” / X https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1972712933080920451
We have three cool announcements today: (1) @OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by @stripe. (2) We’re releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI. (3) @stripe is launching an API for agentic payments,”” / X https://x.com/patrickc/status/1972716417280860391
ChatGPT Pulse — a background agent which delivers updates to you every day on topics of interest:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1971267684609540583
Personalized just-in-time content is here. ChatGPT pulse is effectively a daily newsletter tuned to your interests. Cost of generation will only go down. NotebookLM style audio overview is an obvious next step. Eventually it’ll be a mf-ing YouTube video you can talk to. The https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1971621232589324741
Now in preview: ChatGPT Pulse This is a new experience where ChatGPT can proactively deliver personalized daily updates from your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar. Rolling out to Pro users on mobile today. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1971259652684878019
Just had an interesting experience with ChatGPT Pulse Last night I asked ChatGPT a question and it gave me an answer that was just so-so This morning the first card in Pulse was a 3x better answer to the same question I’d be really curious how this works under the hood”” / X https://x.com/nbashaw/status/1972335882058473984
AI should do more than just answer questions; it should anticipate your needs and help you reach your goals. That’s what we’re beginning to build, starting with ChatGPT Pulse (rolling out now to Pro, with goal of making it available to everyone over time): https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/1971258542578663829
Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers. Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1971297661748953263
https://t.co/321zjlMTmp paper doesn’t mention “”AGI”” but if you consider that we used to define AGI as “”outperform humans at most economically valuable work” then surely GDPVal is the most direct AGI benchmark we have ever had and we are between 77-95% of the way there and should https://x.com/swyx/status/1971427791770882463
I’m not sure that we should take the GDPval benchmark that literally I don’t believe that crossing the 50% win rate would actually translate to real world performance the trend is important”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1971432462820802834
We aim to build the most intelligent and useful AI. But “useful” is a fuzzy word. GDPval (consisting of tasks spanning 44 occupations across the top 9 sectors contributing to US GDP) makes “”usefulness”” more concrete. Would love to saturate this one!”” / X https://x.com/markchen90/status/1971449404734439831
The gdpval dataset from @OpenAI is number one trending on @huggingface this week! https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1972640079559749632
Tejal Patwardhan on X: “Understanding the capabilities of AI models is important to me. To forecast how AI models might affect labor, we need methods to measure their real-world work abilities. That’s why we created GDPval. https://t.co/YsQvmdGK94″ / X
https://x.com/tejalpatwardhan/status/1971249532588741058
I say it often, but the fact that Codex & Claude Code use UX that are accessible only to actual coders is a shame. They are genuinely powerful (& fun) tools for people who don’t touch code at all to generate useful (or creative) little applications. The barriers are unnecessary.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1971784128581587048
You can now buy products directly on ChatGPT. Launched with merchants like Etsy; Shopify and more coming soon. Merchants can integrate using the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a new open standard we built with Stripe: https://x.com/gdb/status/1972717815703683218
Cool thing launching today: you can now buy products directly from ChatGPT (starting with Etsy and expanding soon to over a million Shopify merchants). It’s powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol, an open standard we built with Stripe. Merchants and developers who want Instant”” / X https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/1972707487238467914
ChatGPT already helps millions of people find what to buy. Now it can help them buy it too. We’re introducing Instant Checkout in ChatGPT with @Etsy and @Shopify, and open-sourcing the Agentic Commerce Protocol that powers it, built with @Stripe, so more merchants and developers https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1972708279043367238
Buy it in ChatGPT: Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/
We wrote about how Agentic purchasing would be the primary way that OpenAI would monetize free users on August 13th on GPT-5 set the stage for monetization https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/1972714269839163901
I mostly buy stuff from ChatGPT now, so I am excited for this new feature!”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1972993739074523239
Instant Checkout for merchants in ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/merchants
OpenAI’s Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output — inks deal with Samsung and SK hynix to the tune of up to 900,000 wafers per month | Tom’s Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-stargate-project-to-consume-up-to-40-percent-of-global-dram-output-inks-deal-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-the-tune-of-up-to-900-000-wafers-per-month
OpenAI staff grapples with the company’s social media push | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/openai-staff-grapples-with-the-companys-social-media-push/
OpenAI is building a social network | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
@stripe Developers can adopt the protocol and apply to accept orders directly through ChatGPT with Instant Checkout. → https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1972713154598871541
Had fun being in Germany to launch a sovereign cloud offering with SAP and Microsoft; important to us to help governments use our frontier models.”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1971433413086499044
Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/meta-poaches-openai-researcher-yang-song/
OpenAI’s First Half Results: $4.3 Billion in Sales, $2.5 Billion Cash Burn — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-first-half-results-4-3-billion-sales-2-5-billion-cash-burn
OpenAI Completes Share Sale at Record $500 Billion Valuation – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/openai-completes-share-sale-at-record-500-billion-valuation?srnd=phx-ai
The most important thing here: the models completed these tasks 100x faster and cheaper than the industry experts”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1971431825433374866
We’re beginning to roll out parental controls in ChatGPT, including the first-of-its-kind safety notification system to alert parents if their teen may be at risk of self-harm. Read more here: https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/1972602249907146967
Introducing parental controls | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-parental-controls/
My favorite thing about the new college grads that I’ve hired is that they don’t ask you how to do stuff They just put it in ChatGPT and fucking try even if wrong So much better than new grads asking you how to do shit without trying Chat is breeding agency into kids”” / X https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1971425552902082941
Sound on. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1973071069016641829
Sam Altman’s playbook is clear: When a model becomes usable, OpenAI rushes to turn it into a blockbuster app: ChatGPT – chat app Codex – coding app Sora – video app Raw model power isn’t a strong moat in a crowded field (Google, xAI, Anthropic). But once an app embeds into”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1973435314195800392
Excited to launch Sora 2! Video models have come a long way; this is a tremendous research achievement. Sora is also the most fun I’ve had with a new product in a long time. The iOS app is available in the App Store in the US and Canada; we will expand quickly.”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1973072672683684239
Obsessed with Rick and Morty explaining 3D Gaussian Splatting. Sora 2 nails it – and yes they really are training on everything by default. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1973451863442989155
The voice cloning quality in the Sora 2 app is REALLY impressive. Wonder if this is the same tech behind “”Voice Engine”” which OpenAI never released because they were worried about just how good it was. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1973229885742051465
I tried this test with Sora 2. It fails and the output looks a lot more fake than Veo 3. But interestingly, the audio output that narrates the scene gets the explanation right. https://x.com/fofrAI/status/1973745038195830891
I have been warning about this for a couple years (the post below is from February 2023), but you really cannot trust any image or video you see online. It isn’t just Sora 2, it is a host of tools (many open source) that make cloning voice & images easy. https://x.com/emollick/status/1973461311649718302
This is legitimately mind-blowing… How the FUCK does Sora 2 have such a perfect memory of this Cyberpunk side mission that it knows the map location, biome/terrain, vehicle design, voices, and even the name of the gang you’re fighting for, all without being prompted for any of https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1973124528680345871
Everyone should throw down for the Sora 2 gpu fund. The nano banana reference was elite. Turns out Sam can jump over a chair, and no amount of popped collars is enough. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1973113511887905021
Bruh scrolling sora just is videos of people saying “theres a secret feature of sora app double tap and an emoji appears” because it gives them a like, bleh”” / X https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1973347911980454274
My test of any new AI video model is whether it make an otter using wifi on an airplane Here is Sora 2 doing a nature documentary… 80s music video… a thriller… 50s low budget SciFi film… a safety video.. film noir… anime… 90s video game cutscene… French arthouse https://x.com/emollick/status/1973220923810652523
No wonder Snap’s stock dropped 7% yesterday. OpenAI did something with Sora 2 nobody else could by nailing three things at once: 1. Consumer first interface (like Meta Vibes attempted) 2. Production grade output (like Google Veo 3 has) 3. Social collaboration built in (made to”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1973406327058661815
The labs learned from the Studio Ghibli thing that images & video could produce viral moments that turn into user gain. The Sora 2 launch is the ultimate implementation of this: gated invites, an app that selects for virality, reasons to share with friends, provocative content”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1973424720549929054
3 quick thoughts on the Sora app 1. OpenAI was smart to feature their team in the Sora launch video memes. High-fidelity output + showing that you buy what you sell + having a sense of humor deflects some slop-dealer hate. 2. “Cameo” feature does what the Ghibli template did:”” / X https://x.com/anuatluru/status/1973125101047451830
Sora 2 can solve questions from LLM benchmarks, despite being a video model. We tested Sora 2 on a small subset of GPQA questions, and it scored 55%, compared to GPT-5’s score of 72%. https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1974172794012459296
Sora 2 might be cooked. Veo 3 seems better. Look at the artifacts and inconsistency in the background 💀 https://x.com/scaling01/status/1973076175342756152
we’re scaling-up invites to Sora tomorrow! as a heads-up, when more people come onto the platform, gens/day will need to decrease to support the increased volume. we’ll keep everyone posted as things change. in the meantime, enjoy the expanded limits! https://x.com/billpeeb/status/1973260687553208344
Sora 2 – Sam Altman https://blog.samaltman.com/sora-2
Sora 2 is here. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1973075422058623274
We are launching a new app called Sora. This is a combination of a new model called Sora 2, and a new product that makes it easy to create, share, and view videos. This feels to many of us like the “ChatGPT for creativity” moment, and it feels fun and new. There is something”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1973073987023352250
Sora 2 is cooming “ OPENAI IS PREPARING to launch a stand-alone app for its video generation AI model Sora 2, WIRED has learned. The app, which features a vertical video feed with swipe-to-scroll navigation, appears to closely resemble TikTok except it’s AI-generated. “ https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/1972756684297978256
Sora 2 Pro is now rolling out so here’s one more vid. 15 seconds ( max length ) at high quality. Very nice. https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/1973979773354586379
Sora https://sora.chatgpt.com/explore
Sora 2 is here | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/sora-2/
I found this to be a pretty solid overview of what Sora 2 can do and where it falls short. Super helpful! My take from this: Sora 2 samples look super impressive — but it seems just like with Sora 1, things were polished for marketing.”” / X https://x.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1973728079395856396
So, generating Sora 2 videos and scrolling the feed is my new favorite thing. I love it. The ultimate AI slop machine. https://x.com/ostrisai/status/1973210333532811419
This kind of re-prompting layer is used in some other video generation models, such as HunyuanVideo, to improve the quality and diversity of outputs. We don’t know for sure whether this is happening in Sora, but it wouldn’t be surprising.”” / X https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1974172901567004762
i have the most liked video on sora 2 right now, i will be enjoying this short moment while it lasts cctv footage of sam stealing gpus at target for sora inference https://x.com/GabrielPeterss4/status/1973120058907041902
Sora 2 is out! I’m incredibly impressed that despite Sora 1 setting a ridiculous bar — as the largest jump in video capability basically ever — Sora 2 somehow matches up here. For people that played around a lot with Sora 1, it didn’t feel clear that Sora really ‘understood’”” / X https://x.com/willdepue/status/1973089331284681110
TODAY WE LAUNCH SORA 2, THE WORLDS BEST VIDEO GENERATION MODEL feature you and your friends with raw real world physics, putting an end to the uncanny ai vibes let me show you how insane our model is, featuring me & sam altman: https://x.com/GabrielPeterss4/status/1973071380842229781
This is the Sora app, powered by Sora 2. Inside the app, you can create, remix, and bring yourself or your friends into the scene through cameos—all within a customizable feed designed just for Sora videos. See inside the Sora app👇 https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1973087446469406732
Sora 2 deeply understands Indian uncles 😭 https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1973273224147509437
Physics with Sora 2 …and some anime. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1973143639200243959
My favorite trend in the Sora app is these body cam footage videos This clip with Spongebob hit 1M+ TikTok views! 🤯 I built a workflow to remove the Sora 2 watermarks👇 https://x.com/angrypenguinPNG/status/1974144279955325191
How can Sora solve these questions, despite being a video model? One explanation: Sora users’ prompts might be rewritten by an LLM before video generation. In that case, the LLM layer might first solve the problem, then include the solution explicitly in the rewritten prompt.”” / X https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1974172889676177682
OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launches-sora-2-tiktok-like-app/
Sora 2 is here”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1973075357940195665
Sora-2 counting the R’s https://x.com/scaling01/status/1973414141370179876
so.. apparently sora 2 is also a browser it’s wild to see what types of capabilities emerge in the model this is sora 2 rendering pasted html (actual browser-rendered html on the right) https://x.com/jesperengelen/status/1973147038499086523
“sora is number 1 in the app store! it’s been epic to see what the collective creativity of humanity is capable of so far. team is iterating fast and listening to feedback. feel free to drop us feature requests! (we’re sending more invite codes soon, i promise!) https://x.com/billpeeb/status/1974035563482116571
Sora2 from @openai released just 2 days ago, and people are creating and remixing incredible things. The top video with 2.2K likes is a selfie video of Jesus during the last supper, but it only starts there. Sora allows folks to remix any video by adding their own prompt. Here https://x.com/altryne/status/1973568567489798144
Sora: Creating video from text | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39386156
“The crazy thing is you can recursively jailbreak Sora” 😅 https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/1973300086949253410
Sora 2 delivers. It nails accents, aesthetics, and actually has comedic timing. My initial tests making AI videos across a variety of styles 👇 https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1973151157137842416
Pretty much my entire feed on @OpenAI Sora 2 is now just videos saying “”Double tap on Sora videos to see an emoji of the vibe of the video. Leave a comment if you didn’t know””. And there are thousands of these engagement farming videos polluting the feed.”” / X https://x.com/ostrisai/status/1973476918285709398
Introducing Vibes: A New Way to Discover and Create AI Videos https://about.fb.com/news/2025/09/introducing-vibes-ai-videos/
Anyone who sees this video can instantly grasp the (at least) potential for malicious use. And yet nobody with any power (either in the public or at the corporate level) has anything to say (let alone do) to address it, or even acknowledge it.”” / X https://x.com/TheStalwart/status/1973372434133950665
We’ve updated function calling to support files and images as tool call outputs. You can now call functions like `generate_chart` or `load_image` and return those files back to the model, rather than just JSON or text. 🌠 https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1971618905941856495
Why did OpenAI train GPT-5 with less compute than GPT-4.5? Due to the higher returns to post-training, they scaled post-training as much as possible on a smaller model And since post-training started from a much lower base, this meant a decrease in total training FLOP 🧵 https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1971675079219282422
Terence Tao + AI for solving hard math problems🤯 In this example the insight comes from Terence, and the muscle—via an hourlong conversation with GPT-5 and some python code it wrote—comes from AI. “”Here, the AI tool use was a significant time saver… Indeed I would have been”” / X https://x.com/kevinweil/status/1974161952260624459
Terence Tao: “I was able to use an extended …” – Mathstodon
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115306424727150237
Yet more evidence that a pretty major shift is happening, this time by Scott Aaronson https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1972368891239375078
I accidentally ran Codex in a totally unrelated repository again. It found the correct repository from the error message alone (no GitHub link was given), found the source code, cloned it, and started fixing the issue. The commit was 15.3 thousand lines of code”” / X https://x.com/Sauers_/status/1970727099162861788
My review of Sonnet 4.5 based on ~30 hours of Claude Code use is that it’s basically the same as Opus 4.1. Which is quite good! But not as good as GPT-5 (codex thinking=high). Claude Code is still much more polished than Codex. But I find GPT-5 much stronger as a model.”” / X https://x.com/finbarrtimbers/status/1973922679418974298
Now sounds like OpenAI Codex might be is beating out Claude Code.. Spent some time reverse engineering Codex CLI. Let’s see what decisions @OpenAI made that @AnthropicAI didn’t TAKEAWAY: The model already understands shell. Just use that It even simpler than Claude Code. A https://x.com/imjaredz/status/1973035370041532685
Today we’re expanding Microsoft 365 Copilot with the addition of Anthropic’s Claude models. Customers can now use both OpenAI and Claude — starting in Researcher and Copilot Studio, and coming to more experiences soon. Our multi-model approach goes beyond choice. It’s all about https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1970884338993778855
Having done RL at OpenAI and Anthropic, here’s what I can say about GRPO:”” / X https://x.com/McaleerStephen/status/1972464814808240592
chatgpt-usage-and-adoption-patterns-at-work.pdf https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/3c7f7e1b-36c4-446b-916c-11183e4266b7/chatgpt-usage-and-adoption-patterns-at-work.pdf
Asher on X: “if i had a nickel for every MIT professor who told me GPT5 made a novel research discovery in the past week, i’d have 2 nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s strange that it happened twice” / X
https://x.com/asher5772/status/1973152790475317290
Introducing parental controls in ChatGPT. Now parents and teens can link accounts to automatically get stronger safeguards for teens. Parents also gain tools to adjust features & set limits that work for their family. Rolling out to all ChatGPT users today on web, mobile soon. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1972604360204210600
gpt-4o is honestly still better for some of my pipelines”” / X https://x.com/imjaredz/status/1973178865104331116
Updated TLDR (after hammering Sonnet 4.5 for 24h); GPT-5-Codex is good and fast Sonnet 4.5 is great and fast GPT-5-High is great and slow Opus 4.1 is no longer needed”” / X https://x.com/iannuttall/status/1973460871574856019
We’re updating GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in moments of distress. Sensitive parts of conversations will now route to GPT-5 Instant to quickly provide even more helpful responses. ChatGPT will continue to tell users what model is active when asked.”” / X https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1974234951928459450
Right behind the leaders, a bundle of models from @openAI: 🥈ChatGPT-4o-latest 🥈GPT-4.5 preview 🥈GPT-5 high 🥈o3 All clustered within a single rating point of the top. With tens of thousands of votes, they’re effectively in striking distance of the peak.”” / X https://x.com/arena/status/1974215628757066077
OpenAI now possibly the world’s most valuable startup | AP News https://apnews.com/article/openai-500b-valuation-chatgpt-53dffc56355460a232439c76d1ccf22b
Partnering with AARP to help keep older adults safe online | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/aarp-partnership-older-adults-online-safety/
💥 We’re hiring our first research scientists for OpenAI for Science! As a reminder, our goal is to build the next great scientific instrument: an AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery.”” / X https://x.com/kevinweil/status/1972706870042440051
ChatGPT Is Moving Away From Reddit as a Source https://thetradable.com/ai/chatgpt-is-moving-away-from-reddit-as-a-source-ig–a
thanks bill for your leadership and vision on this project; it has been awesome to watch.”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1973078555274743883
10am PT. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1973055265084690780
i get the vibe here, but… we do mostly need the capital for build AI that can do science, and for sure we are focused on AGI with almost all of our research effort. it is also nice to show people cool new tech/products along the way, make them smile, and hopefully make some”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1973381552621887706
Ok. This is art. The art of slop. Divine slop. OpenAI, I concede. You have cooked. https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1973369392944812069
It’s here!! And it’s so good! 🤩”” / X https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/1973082929191350548
amazing breakthroughs from @model_mechanic again and again and i have no doubt the best ones are coming soon :)”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1973215799042252812
it is way less strange to watch a feed full of memes of yourself than i thought it would be. not sure what to make of this.”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1973377760262295959
