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Two weeks after a government-requested limit to "trusted partners," OpenAI confirmed the full GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) goes public, with Altman marking it "Happy building." Alongside it, GPT-Live-1 listens and speaks simultaneously for genuine conversational turn-taking. The real signal for builders is the government-hold-then-release pattern. Frontier launches are now gated by national-security review, which is a new variable in your roadmap planning.
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OpenAI launched the GPT-5.6 family on July 14: Sol (flagship), Terra (cost-optimized), and Luna (fast tier), live across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API the same day after a US-government-requested delay for security review. The numbers are loud. Sol scored 53.6 on Agents' Last Ex...
All three will hit a small group of trusted partners first, following coordination with the U.S. government, before broader GA (Build Fast with AI). Under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, all three are classified High capability in both Cybersecurity and Biological/Chemical ri...
OpenAI's flagship of the newly previewed Sol/Terra/Luna family hits that speed tier on Cerebras hardware in July, with pricing from $5/$30 per 1M for Sol down to $1/$6 for Luna. The rollout stays partly gated to "trusted partners" at the US government's request, so the Cerebra...
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 p...
In a July 9 CNBC interview he described a "collaborative back and forth" with Commerce Secretary Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Bessent, and changes to the models before wide release, after the government briefly limited the June 26 preview (CNBC). He called reports of a 5% US...
July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
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