OpenAI announced a new architecture called Private Safety Processing, enabling eligible API customers to maintain full Zero Data Retention protections even when using frontier AI models.

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

Analysts said the moves may be nothing more than positioning the company for its IPO, but that both changes are welcome news nonetheless.

Under ZDR, OpenAI does not save a customer's prompts or the AI's responses once a task is finished. No OpenAI employee can view the content, and unless a company chooses to opt…