The AI Daily Brief · Saturday, June 27, 2026
OpenAI's GPT 5.6 is being released in a limited preview at the request of the US government, a departure from the company's planned open access launch. Sam Altman stated that the government will be approving access customer by customer during this preview period, a model OpenAI finds suboptimal.
“In a Wednesday company Q&A, Sam Altman told OpenAI that GPT 5.6 would not instead be released into a limited preview to a small group of partners.”
“Bad news, at the request of the US government, it is launching today in limited preview instead of the open access launch we were planning on.”
“We are working with the government to get general availability as fast as we can.”