OpenAI Significantly Accelerates Release Pace

haider1 · x · 2026-07-10

A post highlights OpenAI's rapidly accelerating model release cycle: roughly one major family per year from 2018 to 2020, increasing to about two per year between 2022 and 2024, and surging to 8 releases already in 2025. As of July 8, 2026, there have been 4 releases, including gpt-5.6.

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