OpenAI announced that its newest series of powerful artificial intelligence models will be available to the general public on Thursday, pending approval from the US government.
OpenAI announced that its newest series of powerful artificial intelligence models will be available to the general public on Thursday, pending approval from the US government.
The company's new offering, GPT-5.6, along with other advanced AI models, including Anthropic's Mythos series, has raised concerns due to their purported unprecedented ability to detect software vulnerabilities—weaknesses in code that hackers could exploit.
At the end of June, OpenAI provided preliminary access to GPT-5.6 to a limited group of partners operating only in the US, at the request of Washington.
The GPT-5.6 series includes three new models: Sol, which is the company's flagship development; Terra, a mid-level model for everyday use; and Luna, a fast and inexpensive option. The company stated in an X post on Tuesday: 'GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will be publicly released this Thursday. We are expanding early access globally now,' without providing further details.
According to the American publication Axios on Tuesday, citing a source familiar with the situation, the Trump administration permitted OpenAI's wide release of GPT-5.6 after testing and meetings between the company and government officials.
AFP contacted OpenAI, the White House, and the US Department of Commerce for comments regarding the Axios report. This move comes against a backdrop of a similar situation with OpenAI's main competitor, Anthropic, which last week announced the resumption of global access to its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the US government lifted restrictions on their release.
