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Frontier capability and general availability are now decoupled by policy.

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VentureBeat reports OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna launched to only about 20 vetted partners "per US Gov," the same week Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The pattern hardening here is that the most capable models ship behind government-approved allowlists before any public release. For builders, the timeline on frontier access is now set by policy, not engineering. Plan as if the best model is something you may not be allowed to use.


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