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OpenAI
Research lab building general-purpose frontier models, deployed through ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. Structured as a capped-profit entity under a nonprofit board, with Microsoft as its primary compute partner.
- Founded
- 2015
- Models tracked
- 115
- Valuation
- $300B
- Country
- United States
est. · as of Aug 2026
Founders
Sam Altman · Ilya Sutskever · Greg Brockman · Elon Musk · Wojciech Zaremba
Model Benchmarks
data by
| Model | Released | Intelligence | Coding | GPQA | HLE | SciCode | Terminal-Bench Hard | Tau2 | LCR | IFBench | Speed | TTFT | $/1M in | $/1M out | $/1M blended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra (Max) | 2026-09-03 | 56.9 | — | 96.1% | 54.7% | 56.5% | — | — | 80.7% | — | 53.7 t/s | 229.93s | $10 | $50 | $20 |
| GPT-6 Astra (Xhigh) | 2026-09-03 | 55.3 | — | 96.3% | 54.6% | 55.7% | — | — | 80% | — | 51 t/s | 93.45s | $10 | $50 | $20 |
| GPT-6 Astra (High) | 2026-09-03 | 54.8 | — | 94.9% | 53.1% | 55.4% | — | — | 80% | — | 43.3 t/s | 42.19s | $10 | $50 | $20 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) | 2026-09-29 | 54.6 | — | — | 52.9% | 54.2% | — | — | 83% | — | 62.6 t/s | 166.61s | $2 | $10 | $4 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) | 2026-09-29 | 52.5 | — | — | 52.6% | 55.7% | — | — | 79.7% | — | 56.1 t/s | 71.91s | $2 | $10 | $4 |
| GPT-6 Astra (Medium) | 2026-09-03 | 51.6 | — | 93.9% | 52.7% | 54.2% | — | — | 79.7% | — | 45.9 t/s | 4.68s | $10 | $50 | $20 |
| GPT-6.1 Terra (Max) | 2026-10-26 | 51.3 | — | — | 46.2% | 55.1% | — | — | 82.7% | — | 109.8 t/s | 239.45s | $1 | $5 | $2 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol (High) | 2026-09-29 | 50.3 | — | — | 51.4% | 55.8% | — | — | 82.3% | — | 54.5 t/s | 29.43s | $2 | $10 | $4 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol (Medium) | 2026-09-29 | 46.3 | — | — | 49.9% | 53.2% | — | — | 83.3% | — | 52.4 t/s | 4.71s | $2 | $10 | $4 |
| GPT-6.1 Terra (Xhigh) | 2026-10-26 | 45.3 | — | — | 43.7% | 53.4% | — | — | 81.7% | — | 94.5 t/s | 50.01s | $1 | $5 | $2 |
Indices on Artificial Analysis 0-100 scale · eval scores are raw accuracy · “—” means the metric is not published for that model
Release Timeline
last 48 months- 2026-11-04OpenAI acquired Pierre Computer Company, Inc.Acquisition
- 2026-11-03OpenAI accelerated engineering for the physical world.Milestone
- 2026-11-03OpenAI provided AI for Heimstaden residential real estate management.Milestone
- 2026-11-03OpenAI appointed Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer.Milestone
- 2026-11-02OpenAI scaled Git.Milestone
- 2026-11-02OpenAI launched the Grid Protectors Program.Partnership
Milestones written by Frontier Index from Artificial Analysis release dates, disclosed funding rounds, the official newsroom and major tech press. Linked rows open the original report.
Newsroom
source ↗- 2026-11-03Accelerating engineering for the physical worldRelease
- 2026-11-03How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAIRelease
- 2026-11-03Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AIRelease
- 2026-11-03OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs OfficerRelease
- 2026-11-02Scaling Git at OpenAIRelease
- 2026-11-02Introducing the Grid Protectors ProgramModel Launch
- 2026-11-02Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAIRelease
- 2026-11-02Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bountiesRelease
Partners & Investors
- Total raised
- $180B
- Latest round
- $122B (2026 Financing)
- Funding rounds
- 15+
Funding rounds
- Funding Round$122B
Mar 2026 · SoftBank, a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, T. Rowe Price
- Funding Round$110B
Feb 2026 · Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank
- Funding Round$40B
Mar 2025 · SoftBank
- Funding Round$6.6B
Oct 2024 · Thrive Capital, Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank, MGX
Disclosed figures only · as of Aug 2026