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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 \(Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal\)

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**Published:** 2026-11-05T07:35:00.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** openai, agent

## Summary

OpenAI President Greg Brockman said H1 2026 was "pretty rough"\. Agentic coding tools, GPT\-5\.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a "revenue inflection" in Q3\. The president stated the revenue inflection in the third quarter of 2026 was driven by a growing enterprise business\.

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