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title: "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)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openai-president-greg-brockman-says-h1-2026-was-pretty-rough-but-ec16097d
published: 2026-11-05T07:35:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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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)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-05 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openai-president-greg-brockman-says-h1-2026-was-pretty-rough-but-ec16097d

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

In this story: [OpenAI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/openai), [Greg Brockman](https://frontiernewswire.com/people/greg-brockman), [ChatGPT](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/chatgpt), [GPT-5.6 Sol](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/gpt-5-6-sol), [ChatGPT Work](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/chatgpt-work)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261105/p8#a261105p8)

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