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OpenAI President: Q3 2026 Revenue Inflection Driven by Agentic Coding, GPT-5.6 Sol, ChatGPT Work

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OpenAI President Greg Brockman said the first half of 2026 was 'pretty rough' but that the third quarter saw a 'revenue inflection' driven by agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work. He attributed the growth to an expanding enterprise business.

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    OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was "pretty rough", but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a "revenue inflection" in Q3 (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)

    Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal : OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was “pretty rough”, but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a “revenue inflection” in Q3 — The ChatGPT maker's president said it experienced a ‘revenue inflection’ in the third quarter of 2026, driven by a growing enterprise business

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