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One of the things I’m most excited about with ChatGPT is how it’s revolutionizing healthcare. GPT-5 is our best model yet for answering health questions. It scores significantly higher than any previous model on HealthBench, an evaluation OpenAI published earlier this year based on realistic scenarios in partnership with over 250 physicians. Felipe, a member of our OpenAI team, and his wife Carolina shared their story on today’s livestream, and it really moved me. Last October, Carolina was hit with three cancer diagnoses in one week. Like many, her biopsy results felt overwhelming and confusing. On a whim, she took a screenshot of the biopsy report and put it into ChatGPT. Within seconds, it translated the medical jargon into plain language, helping her feel more in control and more prepared to talk to her doctor about next steps. She’s kept using ChatGPT throughout her cancer journey, even to help make a tough choice about radiation when doctors gave conflicting advice. It’s incredible to hear how ChatGPT restored her sense of agency during these critical decisions. You can watch the full livestream and their story here:

ChatGPT is helping the Greenville Arts Council bring more arts and education programming to the Mississippi Delta. When a last‑minute grant opportunity came in with just minutes to spare, the nonprofit turned to AI to help make every second count. Board President Mary Catherine Brooks learned at 4:48 PM that a $20,000 grant proposal was due by 5:00 PM. She opened ChatGPT, uploaded past successful proposals, and had the model use the material to produce a new draft. The completed draft was submitted before the deadline — and won the $20,000 award. The funding will support arts and education programming that reaches children and families across the Delta. Based in Greenville, Mississippi, the council promotes the region’s cultural heritage and provides arts education through exhibitions, school programs, and community events that make the arts accessible to all. It was one of approximately 1,000 nonprofits that took part in OpenAI’s first Nonprofit Jam, which was held at 10 sites across the country last month, where Brooks told us her story. The event gave nonprofit leaders hands-on training with ChatGPT and other tools to explore how AI can help them save time, expand their reach, and better serve their communities. For the Greenville Arts Council, the impact is already clear. “12 minutes of ChatGPT is making an impact on the lives of thousands of kids,” Brooks says.

A US federal court last fall condemned Google’s illegal search monopoly, and will soon issue a decision on how to remediate that long-standing monopoly. But the remedy is about more than the history of online search and unwinding Google’s stranglehold – it’s also about stopping Google from using its monopoly in search to choke off competition in AI. As more people adopt AI, Google continues to dictate terms around access to data and create distribution bottlenecks, including access to prime real estate on mobile devices, browsers, and at the top of its search results. The next generation of technologies we use – and whether or not their benefits will be broadly distributed or concentrated in the hands of a few (a movie we’ve seen before) – will be shaped by the court’s decision and how policymakers approach this issue. In the remedy phase of the trial last spring, a witness from OpenAI told the court that: 🔒 Android and default Search agreements block distribution channels, locking out rival AI assistants and other offerings before users even power on a device. 🔎 Search and access to real-time information are critical inputs to AI products. Google’s content silos and ecosystem control leave smaller AI and search developers scrambling for scraps while Google stockpiles the raw materials that power these services. Absent intervention, Google’s decades-old playbook – dictate default settings, impede choice, and leverage users’ data across products – will carry into the future, tilting the forming AI landscape against smaller innovative startups in the same way Google has blocked meaningful search competition. That would be a senseless brake on American innovation and do a lot of harm to America’s economy. It would concentrate AI’s potential gains in the hands of a legacy Big Tech player rather than democratizing it in ways that give people and businesses real choice and help innovative entrants to build for America’s future. For more on this topic, including our suggestions for robust AI competition, read our full post in The Prompt newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eQakDaRU

We are making ChatGPT Enterprise Available to the Entire Federal Workforce for $1! Today, OpenAI and the GSA announced that ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to every federal gov agency for $1 per agency for the next year. A huge thank you to GSA to helping this across the line! As someone who works with government customers every day, I’m proud of what this means: millions of federal employees will now have access to secure, enterprise-grade AI to help them work more efficiently and focus on mission-critical priorities. This is a practical step toward bringing the benefits of AI to public service at scale and I’m looking forward to seeing how agencies put it to use. https://lnkd.in/en2Th3ua

Today, we’re releasing what we believe to be the best and most usable open models in the world—the result of billions of dollars of research, able to run locally on your own computer or phone. It’s part of our broader effort to help make AI available to the most people possible, not concentrated in the hands of the few. That’s why we’re integrating these open models into both our OpenAI for Countries initiative that helps governments build their own AI infrastructure, and the OpenAI nonprofit's support for groups on the frontlines of their communities. 🌎 Geopolitical upside: Open models create a powerful network effect for advancing American-led democratic AI. When many developers use and improve the same tools, every contribution—new integrations, fine-tunes, or performance improvements—benefits the whole community. It’s the same reason that Linux runs a major share of the world’s servers: open-source collaboration ensures that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Just as science advances through incremental contributions that build toward major breakthroughs, shared AI tools let the best ideas emerge faster and reach more people. The country that produces the most widely adopted AI models shapes the global standards that others follow. Choosing to build on models developed in the US is effectively a bet on American innovation and values. In the Intelligence Age, AI models are a form of soft power: when governments and companies adopt US-origin models, they’re choosing an ecosystem rooted in reliability, transparency, and democratic norms. 💵 Open models economics. A recent Harvard study estimated that the demand-side value of all open-source software is nearly $9 trillion. By significantly lowering upfront costs and leveraging collective creativity, open-source solutions remove barriers to adoption and enable rapid and widespread use of new technologies. For more on our open models -- plus much, much more -- check out (and subscribe to) The Prompt: https://lnkd.in/eQakDaRU

North Carolina Department of State Treasurer is showing us a glimpse into the future of government - with ChatGPT! The results of their pilot using ChatGPT Enterprise were impressive and transformative: ✅ 85% of participants reported a positive experience across every department and job type. ✅ Employees saved 30–60+ minutes per day on average; time they used to tackle higher-value work. ✅ Tasks that once took 20 minutes, like comparing audit documents, were completed in 20 seconds. ✅ Complex research that took hours (like identifying 25 franchisees across the state) was done in seconds. ✅ Early wins included uncovering millions of dollars (!!!) in unclaimed property through automated searches. My take away from this: unlocking capacity. The magic, and the impact, is in freeing public servants to spend less time buried in bureaucracy and more time delivering for citizens. From translating complex legal language into plain English, to drafting policy outlines, to accelerating decision-making across teams; ChatGPT proved to be a gateway for innovation, clarity, and impact in state operations. Next step: go bigger! #OpenAIforGovernment

A Defining Moment for AI in Mississippi What an incredible day. The Mississippi Artificial Intelligence Network (MAIN) took a major step forward by hosting its first hands-on ChatGPT workshop in partnership with OpenAI Academy. Nearly 500 participants gathered at Jackson State University, a proud MAIN partner, for a day of learning, connection, and innovation. This was more than an event. It was a powerful demonstration of what’s possible when vision, partnership, and purpose align to shape the future. Thank you to Jackson State University for the outstanding hospitality. MAIN is especially grateful to Dr. Almesha L. Campbell, Ph.D., RTTP, HonNAI for her leadership and to the dedicated teams across campus who made this day a success. To the OpenAI Academy team, including Nicole Carter, Alex Nawar, Jane Kim, David Sperry, and many others, thank you for traveling to Mississippi and engaging directly with our educators, workforce leaders, and government partners. Your presence elevated the energy in the room and left a lasting impact. Most of all, thank you to everyone who attended. You came from every corner of the state, representing education, government, and industry. Your presence showed the strength of a united effort to advance AI readiness across Mississippi. This workshop was more than a milestone. It signaled that Mississippi is not waiting on the future. We are building it. MAIN is proud to lead this charge by connecting people, sparking innovation, and expanding opportunity. Today was a tremendous step forward, and it is only the beginning. MAIN looks forward to bringing more events like this to communities across Mississippi. #MAIN #Mississippi #MississippiAI #MississippiAINetwork #OpenAI #OpenAIAcademy #ChatGPT #Education #Government #Workforce

We are all keeping our finger on the pulse of what the future of work will look like in this era of AI. The OpenAI Forum's Future of Work series aims to bring the world alongside us in these explorations led by leading economists. Join us for a seat at the table. Today at 12pm PT, join Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji and one of his friends and early mentors, Professor Joseph Fuller for a lunchtime discussion followed by live Q&A with Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji, OpenAI's Chief Economist.  “Some doors will open, some doors will be closed, new opportunities that we can never imagine will be created. For students graduating, that can be scary, confusing, potentially exciting. But maybe the best we can do as researchers is give them the information they need to make those decisions about where to allocate their skills and talents.” - Professor Fuller Cassandra Duchan SolisElizabeth Wilner Mattie Zazueta Jane Hratko Jane Kim Caitlin Maltbie Zoë Hitzig Carl S. Karin Kimbrough Tom Cunningham Alex Nawar Mark Murray Karin Kimbrough 🎬 Join us here today: https://lnkd.in/gXFiHDSV

A month out from the start of the fall semester, TrueDot poll findings (June 10-19, 1,339 current college students, +/- 3.1%) offer a look at how college students in the US are using and thinking about AI. The numbers are big: 75% say they’ve used ChatGPT for schoolwork; 40% say they frequently use it; and a whopping 97% of those who have used it say they find it useful, including 68% who say it’s “very useful.” So the adoption is already there. But the survey also highlights the AI challenges these students face, as well as what worries them about AI use in class. Two-thirds (66%) want higher education to set clear boundaries on when and whether AI can/cannot be used; another 42% want institutions to embrace AI and teach responsible use. And 8 in 10 have concerns about plagiarism, AI producing misinformation and incorrect information, and instructors generating their assignments with AI. For more on these findings -- and much, much more -- check out (and subscribe to) our The Prompt newsletter: https://lnkd.in/ewfjjjRx

Advances in AI have raised questions about the future of work, especially in software engineering. But we follow the data, and at least so far, the data tells a different story. That story is of AI not replacing developers, but helping them do more, faster. Across the software development lifecycle, AI is unlocking significant productivity gains. At the same time, what we’re seeing at OpenAI is that the world wants much more software. From streamlining the debugging process with AI-powered forensics, to accelerating architectural planning through intelligent code comprehension, to automating repetitive tasks through code generation—developers are leveraging these tools to reach new levels of efficiency. The result? A productivity dividend that spans junior engineers to seasoned architects, benefiting organizations both large and small. These gains aren’t theoretical. Studies from the past two years show measurable improvements: a 30% reduction in debugging time, 55% faster task completion, and an 84% increase in successful builds. Scaled across the industry, these gains could translate into a meaningful increase in global GDP as new products launch faster, new companies are born, and demand is met with better software solutions. Strategic AI adoption isn’t just good for developers—it’s good for business and the economy. For more on how AI is boosting productivity and efficiency in software engineering, check out our latest The Prompt newsletter: https://lnkd.in/ewfjjjRx