OpenAI new features in July 2026

Everything OpenAI shipped in July 2026: 14 releases, grouped by product, each linked to OpenAI's release notes.

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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra, and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

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ChatGPTJul 29, 2026

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.

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ChatGPTJul 23, 2026

Launching Health in ChatGPT

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

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ChatGPTJul 22, 2026

Introducing OpenAI Presence

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

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ChatGPTJul 9, 2026

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.

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ChatGPTJul 9, 2026

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.

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ChatGPTJul 9, 2026

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.

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ChatGPTJul 8, 2026

Introducing GPT-Live

A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.

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OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80% and Terra 20%, Fast mode replaces Priority

From July 30, GPT-5.6 Luna costs 80% less and Terra 20% less. Fast mode replaces Priority Processing, giving GPT-5.6 Sol up to 2.5x speed at twice the price, and priority requests map to it automatically.

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OpenAI APIJul 29, 2026

OpenAI releases an official Terraform provider

The provider manages projects, users, groups, roles, service accounts, certificates, invitations and project rate limits as code, with import and drift detection through standard Terraform workflows.

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OpenAI APIJul 28, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe

GPT Transcribe handles accurate file transcription and final transcripts of Realtime turns, while GPT Live Transcribe provides low-latency streaming. Both support transcription context, keyword hints and multiple expected languages.

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OpenAI APIJul 22, 2026

OpenAI API adds hard spend limits for organizations and projects

A monthly cap makes affected API requests return 429 once tracked spend reaches the limit. Spend alerts can warn before traffic is interrupted.

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OpenAI APIJul 9, 2026

OpenAI releases the GPT-5.6 model family: Sol, Terra and Luna

GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna span frontier to high-volume workloads, and gpt-5.6 routes to Sol. The family adds Programmatic Tool Calling, explicit prompt caching controls, persisted reasoning and Pro mode, with multi-agent orchestration in beta.

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OpenAI APIJul 6, 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1 mini

GPT-Realtime-2.1 improves alphanumeric recognition, silence and noise handling and interruptions for voice apps, and the mini version is a faster, lower-cost distilled reasoning model.

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OpenAI new features in July 2026

ChatGPT8

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

Launching Health in ChatGPT

Introducing OpenAI Presence

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

Introducing GPT-Live

OpenAI API6

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80% and Terra 20%, Fast mode replaces Priority

OpenAI releases an official Terraform provider

OpenAI releases GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe

OpenAI API adds hard spend limits for organizations and projects

OpenAI releases the GPT-5.6 model family: Sol, Terra and Luna

OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1 mini