---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Introducing ChatGPT Futures: Class of 2026"
description: "Meet the ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026—26 student innovators using AI to build, research, and drive real-world impact. Discover how this generation is redefining learning."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-futures-class-of-2026"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "benchmark", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-05-06"
category: "benchmark"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 76
confidence: 0.9
---

# Introducing ChatGPT Futures: Class of 2026

# Claim

Meet the ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026—26 student innovators using AI to build, research, and drive real-world impact. Discover how this generation is redefining learning, creativity, and opportunity with ChatGPT.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section one: model and benchmark capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This belongs in the register because benchmark and model-release claims set the ceiling for the next wave of deployment stories. The labour-market effect is indirect today, but it becomes direct when these gains are packaged into agents, APIs, and enterprise tools.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: benchmark
* Sector: Education
* Capability: Education and workforce adoption
* Cope score: 76
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Introducing ChatGPT Futures: Class of 2026](https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-futures-class-of-2026)