Image created with gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Wide angle aerial photography of a cheerful anthropomorphic ChatGPT logo character freefalling through crisp blue sky with arms spread in joy, wearing an unopened parachute pack labeled Safety, distant ground far below showing data centers, bright daylight, the bold text OPENAI integrated as large clean typography in the upper sky portion of the frame, dynamic action shot, vibrant optimistic mood

GPT-5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant/

Introducing GPT-5.4 | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/

New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/understanding-ai-and-learning-outcomes/

The Codex app is now on Windows. Get the full Codex app experience on Windows with a native agent sandbox and support for Windows developer environments in PowerShell. https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2029252453246595301

To bring Codex to Windows, we built the first Windows-native agent sandbox. It uses OS-level controls like restricted tokens, filesystem ACLs, and dedicated sandbox users so agents can safely run in real Windows developer environments like PowerShell. Explore the OSS”” https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2029252477179314350

OpenAI Tops 3 Million Paying Business Users, Expands Enterprise Features https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-tops-3-million-paying-210112595.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaGF0Z3B0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANFGMmBOBzhu2rOFkb4Bg-GQyc9W0bFri4DyvO8JOl5KHh4AIZv8QLSORzro5Ldji4g7GZkDRzBZHOY4roOkli4F_WBk8bRlX1GcA2m0Xjo_6j-AvBKnPqCuxBokwNkj-fan1vt2IyCtbXkicL3ubK7dx4e-4JhQjaogD57upR-O

ChatGPT users research products but won’t buy there, forcing OpenAI to rethink its commerce strategy https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-users-research-products-but-wont-buy-there-forcing-openai-to-rethink-its-commerce-strategy/

GPT-5.4 is here. Native computer-use capabilities. Up to 1M tokens of context in Codex and the API. Best-in-class agentic coding for complex tasks. Scalable tool search across larger ecosystems. More efficient reasoning for long, tool-heavy workflows. https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2029620984853188738

GPT-5.4 reportedly brings a million-token context window and an extreme reasoning mode https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-4-reportedly-brings-a-million-token-context-window-and-an-extreme-reasoning-mode/

GPT-5.4 set a new record on FrontierMath, our benchmark of extremely challenging math problems! We had pre-release access to evaluate the model. On Tiers 1-3, GPT-5.4 Pro scored 50%. On Tier 4 it scored 38%. See thread for commentary and additional experiments.”” https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2029626255776395425

As Nvidia pours $30 billion into OpenAI so OpenAI can spend 20+ billion on Nvidia chips, remember this story from last week. Reuters reported two weeks ago that OpenAI had become dissatisfied with the performance of Nvidia’s hardware for certain types of inference tasks,”” https://x.com/michaeljburry/status/2027499260279652459?s=12

Nvidia CEO Huang says $30 billion OpenAI investment ‘might be the last’ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/nvidia-huang-openai-investment.html

Amazon now owns major stakes in both OpenAI AND Anthropic (21%) both are IPO-ing this year. best performing VC of 2026?”” https://x.com/cryptopunk7213/status/2027393739874865644?s=12

OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/amazon-partnership/

Helping AI reach more people requires deep collaboration across the ecosystem. Today we’re announcing new investment, with support from @SoftBank, @NVIDIA, and @Amazon, to scale the infrastructure needed to bring AI to everyone.”” https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2027376050263793814

Scaling AI for everyone | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/

“That’s complete nonsense… We are going to make a huge investment in OpenAI, this is “”probably the largest investment we’ve ever made.”” Well the real question is the $100bn none binding agreement.”” https://x.com/the_ai_investor/status/2017699333446242472?s=46

ChatGPT’s 800 Million Weekly Active Users Dwarfs Competitors Meta AI, Gemini – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-users-openai-sam-altman-devday-llm-artificial-intelligence-2025-10

MLQ.ai | AI for investors https://mlq.ai/news/openai-revises-projections-upward-with-112-billion-extra-cash-burn-by-2030/

OpenAI annualised revenue crosses $25 billion, says report – Storyboard18 https://www.storyboard18.com/brand-makers/openai-annualised-revenue-crosses-25-billion-says-report-91329.htm

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discussed-raising-tens-billions-valuation-around-750-billion

OpenAI projects 220 million paying ChatGPT users by 2030, The Information Reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-projected-least-220-million-people-will-pay-chatgpt-by-2030-information-2025-11-26/

OpenAI’s recent funding round nearly triples the amount they have raised so far. The Information has reported that OpenAI projects a $157B cash burn through 2028. This round, combined with $40B cash on hand, essentially matches that projection.”” https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2027498456273879064

According to OpenAI, their contract with the US DoW locks in current law, “”even if those laws or policies change in the future””. Our legal analysis, with Virgil Law CEO @LukeVerswey, shows that this is almost certainly incorrect.”” https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/2028556035183759719

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-openais-messaging-around-military-deal-straight-up-lies-report-says/

Big loss for OpenAI, big win for Anthropic: Max schwarzer changes teams”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2028952074063331421

Following the bad PR for OpenAI regarding the DoW agreement, GPT-5.4 will probably be released very soon to steer the conversation towards the new model and the improvements.”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2028803185347875207

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/887309/openai-anthropic-dod-military-pentagon-contract-sam-altman-hegseth

I have no inside information about what happened with the government, Anthropic & OpenAI yesterday, but AI is only going to get more disruptive & what we saw publicly (sudden escalations, lack of transparency, lack of clarity), was a bad pattern for navigating the decisions ahead”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2027774533587873815

It’s extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it’s siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance. In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for”” https://x.com/ilyasut/status/2027486969174102261

NEW: When OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal Friday night, people immediately challenged Sam Altman’s claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had said it would never do so? The answer, sources told me, is that it didn’t.”” https://x.com/haydenfield/status/2028481498781790567

OpenAI wants you to just trust them that the NSA is excluded from their contract. Katrina seems to believe she has been “”very transparent,”” but there are many issues: -Two days ago, you promised “”a clear and more comprehensive explanation shortly”” of how the NSA is excluded.”” https://x.com/sjgadler/status/2028899096283758732

Our agreement with the Department of War | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/

Read Anthropic CEO’s Memo Attacking OpenAI’s ‘Mendacious’ Pentagon Announcement — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/read-anthropic-ceos-memo-attacking-openais-mendacious-pentagon-announcement

State Department switches to OpenAI as US agencies start phasing out Anthropic | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-ending-all-use-anthropic-products-says-bessent-2026-03-02/

OpenAI Is Developing an Internal Alternative to Microsoft’s GitHub — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developing-alternative-microsofts-github

We have raised a $110 billion round of funding from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank. We are grateful for the support from our partners, and have a lot of work to do to bring you the tools you deserve.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2027386252555919386

This is not an extension of the November deal. It is a fundamentally different relationship. The November 2025 agreement was straightforward. OpenAI committed $38 billion over seven years to rent NVIDIA GPU capacity on AWS. EC2 UltraServers, GB200s and GB300s, pure”” https://x.com/patrickmoorhead/status/2027382529712349413

(I also would like to share this, which I wrote after thinking a little more.) There is a lot we will talk about in the coming days, but since this is one of the first “”real deal”” decisions we have faced, I wanted to share a few things that have been heavily on my mind the past”” https://x.com/sama/status/2028642231138353299

Here is re-post of an internal post: We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear. 1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else: “”• Consistent with applicable laws,”” https://x.com/sama/status/2028640354912923739

I’d like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2027900042720498089

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of”” https://x.com/sama/status/2027578508042723599

GPT 5.4 is now available in Cursor! We’ve found it to be more natural and assertive than previous models. It’s currently the leader on our internal benchmarks.”” https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2029620689905365081

Feb 2025: ChatGPT held 90% of the US business market. Feb 2026: Claude share has surged to ~70%. Absolutely insane growth of Anthropic. Their bet on coding and agents clearly paid off.”” https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2028974344710606905

I had the same thought so I’ve been playing with it in nanochat. E.g. here’s 8 agents (4 claude, 4 codex), with 1 GPU each running nanochat experiments (trying to delete logit softcap without regression). The TLDR is that it doesn’t work and it’s a mess… but it’s still very”” https://x.com/karpathy/status/2027521323275325622

I looked into how Claude Code and Codex compare to the default scaffolds METR uses for time horizon measurements. It looks like they don’t significantly outperform our default scaffolds on any models we’ve tried them on so far.”” https://x.com/nikolaj2030/status/2022398669337825737

Apple Silicon just leveled up for local LLM dev. @vllm_project is now supported in Docker Model Runner on macOS, so you can run MLX models on an M-series Mac with your existing OpenAI-compatible API and Docker workflow. Update to Docker Desktop 4.62+ and get started. Read more:”” https://x.com/Docker/status/2028470592899354929

5.4 sooner than you Think.”” https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2028909019977703752

always run with xhigh reasoning”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2026822095079092330

BREAKING: @OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 and it is AMAZING. We spent a week @every putting it through real engineering tasks from code reviews to planning workflows and using it inside of our @openclaw setups. The verdict: OpenAI is back in the coding race. – Its planning”” https://x.com/danshipper/status/2029620107870359854

frequent updates to the AI powering ChatGPT, as often as once a month”””” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2029223828677599244

From an AI user perspective, the four big leaps so far in ability: 1. GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT, November 2022) 2. GPT-4 (Spring 2023) 3. Reasoners (starts with o1-preview, but the real deal was o3, Spring 2025) 4. Workable agentic systems (Harness + good reasoner models, December 2025)”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2028711087504326662

GPT 5.4 Pro is the most overthinking model. A simple ‘Hi’ cost me $80. 🥲”” https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2029645361548251271

GPT-5.4 is our most factual and efficient model: fewer tokens, faster speed. In ChatGPT, GPT-5.4 Thinking has improved deep web research, better context retention when it thinks for longer–and oh–you can now interrupt the model and add instructions or adjust its direction”” https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2029620623199326334

GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro are rolling out gradually starting today across ChatGPT, the API, and Codex.”” https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2029620624923189283

I’ve decided to leave OpenAI. I’m incredibly proud of all the work I’ve been part of here, from helping create the reasoning paradigm with @MillionInt, scaling up test-time compute with @polynoamial, working on RL algorithms with my fellow strawberries, shipping o1-preview (which”” https://x.com/max_a_schwarzer/status/2028939154944585989

Many times, Greg has shown clear conviction in doing whatever he thought would be important to defend the mission and people of OpenAI, especially when it was hard. Here he talks about many of those moments.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2027087128514183553

Seriously, I dont get it. – Today, GPT-5.3 instant is being released . – The blog post states at the very bottom that 5.3 Thinking and Pro will also be released very soon. – An hour later, the official OpenAI X account tweeted that GPT-5.4 will be released very soon. ??? So”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2028924631084605465

To say a little bit more about why I think a lawyer would need to see the full contract to evaluate whether OpenAI’s redlines are protected: • its not uncommon in contracts to have language that says “”party A shall do x”” • and then later language that says “”in such and such”” https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2028674866124083623

towards AGI that benefits all of humanity”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2027417577597898837

We often get asked how people who are not technical can contribute to AGI. One area is research recruiting. Tifa (@tifafafafa) is looking for exceptional recruiters from non-traditional backgrounds, former founders especially. We believe the best research teams are built”” https://x.com/sama/status/2027087700214591913

Any benefits in using AGENTS dot md files with coding agents? Lots of discussions on this topics lately. Researchers tested OpenAI Codex across 10 repos and 124 PRs, running identical tasks twice (once with AGENTS dot md, once without). The finding is a bit different from what”” https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2028464607753654711

Code → design → code Generate design files from code, collaborate in @Figma, and implement updates all within Codex without breaking your flow.”” https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2027062351724527723

codex 5.3 for complicated software engineering”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2027478357999554995

Codex got more speed. With /fast mode, GPT-5.4 runs 1.5x faster with the same intelligence and reasoning. Move through coding tasks, iteration, and debugging while staying in flow.”” https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2029635632918843610

Codex is now over 1 million active users!”” https://x.com/sama/status/2019219967250669741?s=20

GPT-5.3 Instant in ChatGPT is now rolling out to everyone. More accurate, less cringe.”” https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2028893701427302559

GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro are rolling out now in ChatGPT. GPT-5.4 is also now available in the API and Codex. GPT-5.4 brings our advances in reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows into one frontier model.”” https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2029620619743219811

Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

Just had 3 more that looked really promising. Codex 5.3 solved all of them. 🙃”” https://x.com/theo/status/2028389340469149704

New OpenAI repo: Symphony https://t.co/4ZAZlAYnRJ TLDR: it’s an orchestration layer that polls project boards for changes and spawns agents for each lifecycle stage of the ticket You will just move tickets on a board instead of prompting an agent to write the code and do a PR”” https://x.com/scaling01/status/2029261034993684952

OpenAI Codex Review 2026 — Updated from Daily Use https://zackproser.com/blog/openai-codex-review-2026

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 is coming, and it’ll have an “”extreme”” reasoning mode. For more on the model, check out this morning’s AI Agenda:”” https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/2029212039760023941

OpenAI’s Next AI Model Will Have ‘Extreme’ Reasoning — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/openais-next-ai-model-will-extreme-reasoning

The Codex app is now live on Windows. The app runs both natively and in WSL, with integrated terminals for PowerShell, Command Prompt, Git Bash, or WSL. We also built the first Windows-native agent sandbox — using OS-level controls to block filesystem writes outside your”” https://x.com/ajambrosino/status/2029252598851879265

The latest model from @OpenAI GPT-5.4 is available in the Text, Vision and Code Arena! – GPT-5.4 & GPT-5.4-High for Text and Vision – GPT-5.4-Medium for Code Arena Get prompting and let’s see how it ranks on the leaderboards.”” https://x.com/arena/status/2029622814060556767

The latest snapshot in @OpenAI’s ChatGPT is available for testing in the Arena! Find GPT-5.3-Chat-Latest in Text Arena and bring your real-world prompts to judge for yourself.”” https://x.com/arena/status/2028908848204177682

The underrated part of the windows codex app release is that the native agent sandbox is fully open source Use it, fork it, build w/ itt! https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2029335011804017135

Exclusive | OpenAI’s Former Research Chief Aims to Automate Manufacturing With AI – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-former-research-chief-aims-to-automate-manufacturing-with-ai-8871f265

Today, OpenAI is launching the Deployment Safety Hub — a new site that turns our system cards from static PDFs into something you can easily search, browse, and share. https://t.co/qXWFVbw7Sa System cards are the most detailed window we provide into the technical work behind”” https://x.com/dgrobinson/status/2027458289517068511

Big GPT-5.4 updates (via TheInformation) – 1M token context window -New “Extreme reasoning mode” → more compute, deeper thinking – Parity with Gemini and Claude long-context models – Better long-horizon tasks (can run for hours) – Improved memory across multi-step workflows”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2029213568155992425

BOOOOM! Introducing GPT-5.4 Thinking & Pro in Codex, API & ChatGPT 🔥 It combines GPT-5.3-Codex-level coding with stronger reasoning, better knowledge-work generation, native computer use for agents, and up to ~1M token context! > Tool search cuts token usage by ~47% on”” https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2029620416546017491

excited for GPT-5.3 Instant rolling out today! a lot of work went into improving the everyday chatgpt experience, things that don’t always show up in benchmarks: better tone, fewer unnecessary refusals, and stronger answers from search. we’ve also reduced hallucinations ↓”” https://x.com/christinahkim/status/2028900228196384978

GPT-5.2 Pro is a really solid fact checker. Put in anything you write into it and it hums away and gives you objections & caveats & “”well, actually”” qualifications, plus it checks your math Outside of narrow areas (Academic pubs, New Yorker articles) this was not possible pre-AI”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2029235053339804132

GPT-5.3 Instant is rolling out in ChatGPT starting today. We heard the feedback on 5.2 – sometimes too cautious, too many caveats, and conversations that didn’t flow as naturally as they should. 5.3 Instant tackles that with fewer unnecessary refusals, fewer defensive”” https://x.com/nickaturley/status/2028894581191000404

GPT-5.3-chat-latest now also in the API”” https://x.com/scaling01/status/2028906108291616773

GPT-5.4 also has a 1M context window, but their evals show that needle-in-a-haystack (MRCR v2) scores 97% at 16-32K tokens, drops to 57% at 256-512K, and just 36% at 512K-1M. So it’s a good idea to compact regularly!”” https://x.com/cline/status/2029642984351010874

GPT-5.4 coming soon (as first leaked by humble self) – exceeding 1 million context window – featuring an extreme reasoning mode”” https://x.com/scaling01/status/2029215437922169254

GPT-5.4 is a big step up in computer use and economically valuable tasks (e.g., GDPval). We see no wall, and expect AI capabilities to continue to increase dramatically this year.”” https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2029622090152956335

GPT-5.4 is launching, available now in the API and Codex and rolling out over the course of the day in ChatGPT. It’s much better at knowledge work and web search, and it has native computer use capabilities. You can steer it mid-response, and it supports 1m tokens of context.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2029622732594499630

GPT-5.4 only slightly better than GPT-5.3-Codex on SWE-Bench-Pro”” https://x.com/scaling01/status/2029620496627597364

GPT-5.4 Pricing MORE EXPENSIVE THAN GPT-5.2″” https://x.com/scaling01/status/2029619520860565648

GPT-5.4 Thinking is rolling out to ChatGPT. You can now interrupt it before it produces the final answer. That means you can steer the response while it’s still working instead of needing multiple back-and-forth turns. We also improved deep web research and long-context”” https://x.com/nickaturley/status/2029639058864099543

GPT-5.4-high is now in the Text Arena, tied with Gemini-3-Pro. Highlights: – Top 3 in Creative Writing, and top 10 in Instruction Following, Hard Prompts. – Top 6 for Occupational categories: Writing, Literature & Language, Entertainment, Sports & Media, Business, Management &”” https://x.com/arena/status/2029648008602857694

It’s GPT-5.4 day! The first general-purpose AI model that beats humans at operating a computer. 75% on OSWorld vs 72.4% for humans. It can navigate desktops, click through UIs, send emails, fill out forms all from screenshots. Additional nuggets: – 1M token context and”” https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/2029625695593435286

It’s happening: GPT-5.4 landed in the arena. Release Thursday very likely”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2029325405212070200

We also evaluated GPT-5.4 Pro on FrontierMath: Open Problems. It did not solve any problems. It made some novel observations on one problem, but of a form that the author had anticipated and characterized as relatively uninteresting. More here:”” https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2029626331764605365

GPT-5.4 scores 83% on GDPval”” https://x.com/scaling01/status/2029618924375965992

GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Thinking are now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers.”” https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2029629694489006347

GPT 5.3 Codex (xhigh) scores 79.3% and takes the lead on WeirdML, just ahead of opus 4.6 (77.9%) at less than half the prize. It is very solid across the board, but I still feel the peak performance of gemini 3.1 is stronger.”” https://x.com/htihle/status/2028441018865955244

First steel beams went up today at our Stargate site in Milam County, Texas. Exciting to see this project taking shape with @SoftBank and @SBEnergy.”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2027241615992225930

podcast covering some intense moments at openai:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2027114645685985371

Microsoft and OpenAI joint statement on continuing partnership – The Official Microsoft Blog https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/27/microsoft-and-openai-joint-statement-on-continuing-partnership/

@sama Key takeaways: 1. Until I see actual contract language, and get real experts to review it, I trust this exactly nil. Always get the language in natsec contracting. Always, always, always. 2. You really do think that the most classic dodge in intelligence oversight,”” https://x.com/David_Kasten/status/2028649586349228284

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