Timeline

Review key company turning points from newest to oldest.

2025

ChatGPT, Agents, or developer platform interface image.

Reasoning models, agent tools, and enterprise platform expanded, moving OpenAI from chat entry toward workflow platform.

2024

GPT-4o demo, Sora video generation, or multimodal interface image.

GPT-4o, Sora, and multimodal capabilities strengthened OpenAI product narrative across text, voice, vision, and video.

2023

GPT-4 launch or enterprise product interface image.

GPT-4, ChatGPT Enterprise, and developer ecosystem expansion began converting model capability into enterprise product and platform revenue.

2022

Early ChatGPT interface image.

ChatGPT launched, bringing generative AI to the mass market and giving OpenAI a global user entry point.

2019

Microsoft Azure and OpenAI partnership image.

Deepened Microsoft partnership, creating major support for compute, cloud platform, and commercialization.

2018

Language model research or paper image.

The GPT line emerged, making large-scale pretraining a core technical direction.

2015

Early team or OpenAI logo image.

OpenAI was founded with an early mission around AGI research and safety.