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Accelerating Speculative Diffusions via Block Verification
Research

Accelerating Speculative Diffusions via Block Verification

Speculative decoding speeds up LLM inference by using a draft model to generate tokens, with an acceptance-rejection scheme that ensures that the output matches…

Uncertainty Estimation for Molecular Diffusion Models
Research

Uncertainty Estimation for Molecular Diffusion Models

Diffusion models have seen wide adoption for 3D molecular generation, yet they offer no principled signal of when a generated molecule is likely to be of low qu…

Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents
Research

Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents

Turn-taking in multi-party spoken conversations remains a fundamental challenge for voice-based agents, particularly under dynamic floor competition and varying…

ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages
Research

ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promising reasoning capabilities in general domains, yet their performance remains limited in specialized se…

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace Feedback for Objective-Weight Adaptation in Three-Sided Dispatch
Research

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace Feedback for Objective-Weight Adaptation in Three-Sided Dispatch

Dispatch in three-sided marketplaces provides a natural setting for reinforcement learning from world feedback: decisions are evaluated by delayed operational o…

Distribution-Agnostic Robust Trajectory Optimization via Chance-Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Research

Distribution-Agnostic Robust Trajectory Optimization via Chance-Constrained Reinforcement Learning

This paper presents a distribution-agnostic robust trajectory-optimization framework based on chance-constrained reinforcement learning. The uncertainty is repr…

Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning
Research

Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning

When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but…

Beyond Runtime Enforcement: Shield Synthesis as Defensibility Analysis for Adversarial Networks
Research

Beyond Runtime Enforcement: Shield Synthesis as Defensibility Analysis for Adversarial Networks

Shielded reinforcement learning is typically presented as a runtime safety mechanism that compiles temporal-logic specifications into automata restricting an ag…

Generative Modeling of Bach-Style Symbolic Music: A Comparative Study of Autoregressive, Latent-Variable, and Adversarial Approaches
Research

Generative Modeling of Bach-Style Symbolic Music: A Comparative Study of Autoregressive, Latent-Variable, and Adversarial Approaches

We study generative modeling of Bach-style symbolic piano music using a shared MIDI corpus and three model families: autoregressive LSTMs with attention, latent…

Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State
Research

Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State

Geometry is invariant to viewpoint, which makes any collection of images a redundant encoding of a single 3D state. Existing feed-forward reconstruction models …

Understanding Truncated Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks
Research

Understanding Truncated Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks

Positional encodings (PEs) enhance the power of graph neural networks (GNNs), both theoretically and empirically. Two of the most popular families of PEs - spec…

Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation
Research

Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation

Text-to-image (T2I) models contain rich spatial priors. Synthesizing photorealistic, cluttered scenes requires an understanding of geometry, including perspecti…

InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation
Research

InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

Recent image generators have demonstrated impressive photorealism and instruction-following capabilities in single-image generation and editing. However, constr…

EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments
Research

EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments

Large language model (LLM) agents have achieved strong performance on a wide range of benchmarks, yet most evaluations assume static environments. In contrast, …

Introducing EVMbench
Labs

Introducing EVMbench

OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.…

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Labs

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.…

Introducing OpenAI for India
Labs

Introducing OpenAI for India

OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.…

Advancing independent research on AI alignment
Labs

Advancing independent research on AI alignment

OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.…

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks
Labs

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.…

Our First Proof submissions
Labs

Our First Proof submissions

We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems.…

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners
Labs

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.…

Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified
Labs

Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified

SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE…

ChinAI #348: China's Compute Year in Review - frenzy, growing pains, and key milestones
Labs

ChinAI #348: China's Compute Year in Review - frenzy, growing pains, and key milestones

Greetings from a world where……

Arvind KC appointed Chief People Officer
Labs

Arvind KC appointed Chief People Officer

OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.…

Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026
Labs

Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.…

OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience
Labs

OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience

OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma canvas to iterate and…

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI partner to accelerate federal permitting
Labs

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI partner to accelerate federal permitting

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduce DraftNEPABench, a new benchmark evaluating how AI coding agents can accelerate federal permitting—sho…

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
Labs

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.…

An update on our mental health-related work
Labs

An update on our mental health-related work

OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation develo…

OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership
Labs

OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership

OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI age…