Internal research update
OpenAI's AGI roadmap leans hard on voice and vision. The safety part is harder.
OpenAI's updated research roadmap runs from GPT-5 through multimodal generation to alignment work. The ambitions are huge; the safety section still reads like an afterthought.
An ambitious roadmap to IGA
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research laboratory, has just updated its official website. Objective: to present a clear vision of its scientific priorities. The company reaffirms its desire to create a "safe and useful" artificial general intelligence (AGI) capable of solving complex human problems. This roadmap is divided into several areas: GPT language models, reasoning series, visual and audio generation, as well as advances in word processing. Atlas is dead. OpenAI's agent strategy just got…
GPT: fast, versatile and economical models
The GPT series remains the backbone of OpenAI. According to information published on 23 April 2026, the flagship model for professional uses and long-term agents was presented as the most efficient and effective to date. The March 5, 2026 releases enhance daily conversations, while the March 3, 2026 releases focus on context optimization. These models are designed to understand context, generate content, and follow reasoning from text, images, and other media. Why GPT-5.5 dominates a benchmark that tests how agents…
Series o: advanced reasoning and stem problem solving
OpenAI places particular emphasis on its o-series models, which use chain of thought processes. The o3 and o4-mini models, announced on April 16, 2025, are described as "the smartest and most capable to date", capable of using unrestricted tools. On January 31, 2025, o3-mini set a new benchmark for low-cost reasoning. The o1 model, unveiled on September 12, 2024, marked a key milestone in learning to reason with LLMs. The M3 team found a way to stop AI math verifiers from…
Vision and image generation: from CLIP to DALL-E 3
In the visual field, OpenAI highlights its work on image generation, with CLIP, a representation model linking text and image, and DALL-E 3, presented on September 30, 2025, which allows a generation of images exactly matching the text provided. On March 25, 2025, a multimodal model capable of generating photorealistic outputs was introduced. Sora, the world simulation video generator, was updated on April 21, 2026. ViQ just gave multimodal AI the one thing it needed:…
Audio: Voice Agents and Speech Recognition
Audio is another major focus. On March 20, 2025, OpenAI introduced next-generation audio models for voice agents in its API. The voice engine, launched on March 29, 2024, explores the challenges and opportunities of synthetic voices. Whisper, a near-human speech recognition model in English, dates from September 21, 2022 but remains a reference. OpenAI's GPT-Live is racing to make voice chats with AI…
Text and alignment: the quest for safety
On the text side, OpenAI insists on aligning language models to follow instructions. A January 27, 2022 publication details this approach, while older research, such as "Summarizing books with human feedback" (September 23, 2021) and "Language models are few-shot learners" (May 28, 2020), lays the groundwork. Josh Achiam, a researcher at OpenAI, says, "One of the biggest challenges we face in achieving our mission is safely aligning powerful AI systems. Techniques like learning from human feedback allow us to progress, but we also study others to achieve our goal." The AI safety framework nobody asked for might be the…
Recruitment and prospects
To support this ambition, OpenAI is actively recruiting talent. Featured positions are available on their site. The company maintains a comprehensive catalogue of its research articles, accessible to the scientific community.
"We believe that our research will lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI), capable of solving human problems. Our mission: to create a safe and useful AGI."