The Trump administration has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of the advanced GPT-5.6 model, citing a source familiar with the matter, Axios reported, writes UNN.
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OpenAI late Tuesday announced that the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model, as well as the lower tiers Terra and Luna, will be publicly launched this Thursday.
The U.S. government and the world's leading artificial intelligence companies are negotiating how people access powerful technologies on a case-by-case basis in real time.
The green light for OpenAI's broad release of GPT 5.6 came after additional testing and meetings between the company and government officials.
The testing was conducted by the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and OpenAI sent technical experts who remained in Washington to address potential issues, the source said.
The Trump administration last month insisted that OpenAI conduct a phased release of GPT-5.6, limiting initial access only to government-approved organizations.
OpenAI then stated that phased deployment is not its preferred way of releasing new models.
The company also stated that AI firms and the U.S. government are working before more specific standards for releasing such models, as outlined in President Trump's latest executive order on artificial intelligence, are finalized.
Both OpenAI and Anthropic have recently been forced to limit the release of their most powerful new models.
In June, the U.S. Department of Commerce banned foreigners from accessing Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models, effectively forcing them out of the market.
The ban on Fable was lifted last week, and customer access was restored a day later.
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