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OpenAI moves ahead with new model release
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OpenAI to publicly release new model after delay
OpenAI will release its most advanced model series, GPT 5.6, to the public Thursday after delaying the public rollout at the request of the Trump administration.
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The company announced the move on the social platform X late Tuesday night. CEO Sam Altman added “happy building” in a separate post.
The Hill has reached out to OpenAI for further comment.
The decision, first reported by Axios, comes nearly two weeks after OpenAI announced the model series would only be previewed with a group of partners before a public rollout.
The ChatGPT maker opted out of a public release at the time at the behest of the U.S. government, which asked the company to delay due to cybersecurity concerns. The partners’s participation was also shared with the government, OpenAI said.
A White House official said on Wednesday the Trump administration did not give OpenAI a “green light” approval or clearance to release its models, stating “no such permission is required or granted.”
“The Administration does not provide approvals for private companies to release AI models — decisions on timing and scope of releases rest entirely with the companies,” the official said.
While OpenAI did not apparently receive any binding order, the administration did place export controls on Anthropic’s newest models just weeks before, prompting the Claude maker to suspend the public’s access.
The Commerce Department eventually lifted these export controls on the models Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic then restored the public’s access to the models the next........