Overview
- OpenAI disclosed Monday that ChatGPT now has about 1.2 billion weekly active users and is adding roughly 100 million users every 30 days, a surge the company links to low‑cost plans and local partnerships.
- The firm told users on November 2 that the legacy ChatGPT Classic desktop app will be retired on January 30, 2027 and that chat histories will migrate to the new ChatGPT app.
- OpenAI is testing a merged Chat and Work interface in its desktop app and will move ChatGPT and Codex to a single shared token quota to simplify product structure.
- The company launched Images 2.6 with native GIF creation, frame-level editing, and faster generation and said ChatGPT users and API callers now produce more than 4 billion images per week.
- OpenAI demonstrated GPT‑6 Astra for hardware and product design and limited signals, including 'gpt-6.2-astra' entries in logs, indicate near‑term releases of Astra, Sol, and a Cyber model but independent specs and benchmarks remain unreported.