Fact · Speech recognition
September 21, 2022date
OpenAI released Whisper as open-source software on September 21, 2022.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Available today as open-source: ... Greg Brockman (@gdb) September 21, 2022”
Whisper: OpenAI releases open-source speech recognition model, Matthias Bastian, The Decoder, 2022, Embedded post by Greg Brockman, dated September 21, 2022.
Open the original- What it measures
- The Decoder published its article on Whisper on the day of the release. It also embeds a post by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, dated September 21, 2022, that says the model is available today as open-source.
- What it does not show
- The date comes from a news article and an embedded social media post, not from OpenAI's own release page, which could not be fetched for this check.