OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release forced by Trump admins
openai launched the gpt-5.6 suite (sol, terra, luna) hours after a reported trump administration request, cutting prices below rivals while emphasizing robust safety measures to appease washington regulators.
openai unveiled the gpt-5.6 suite (sol, terra, luna) just 24 hours after reports that the trump administration pressured the lab to stagger its release. the flagship sol model is priced at $30 per million output tokens—significantly cheaper than anthropic's claude fable 5—and includes new 'max' and 'ultra' modes for complex reasoning and sub-agent orchestration. to navigate the current security panic in washington, openai dedicated 700,000 a100e gpu hours to red-teaming and highlighted the model's refusal to assist with cyberattacks. the launch is currently subject to a government-monitored preview requiring case-by-case customer approvals, a process openai stated it hopes will not become the long-term default.