@sama: Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launch…

Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price.

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 to general availability as fast as we can.

I think it is quite reasonable to roll out models–especially as they reach significant new levels of capability–in this way. It fits with our long-held strategy of iterative deployment. But this isn’t quite the process that we think is optimal.

Now we will with the government to attempt to get to a transparent, reliable process for early access, and to ensure that as long as our safeguards work as intended we can release widely. We want to be a reliable, dependable partner that works with all stakeholders, and we also want to live by our mission of benefiting all of humanity. I believe the government shares most of our goals, and that they are overall doing a good job in a very difficult situation.

We will work as quickly as we can to get this model in your hands and we hope you will love it.

Also, I am happy to answer questions if people have some.

oh and also…750 token/sec coming to 5.6 sol in july!

actually i think a required preview period for extended redteaming is not a bad idea.

i just dont like the idea of the government picking the customers.

confident we will get to a better place.

not raised by wolves but that is a great tv show!

start/planet/moon as model sizes.

@sama why not just kyc u.s. citizens so we get access i volunteer. u.s. citizen should be at the forefront of a.i. research and development especially during this rollout phase. catering to the elite of the elite instead of the u.s. as a whole shows you trying to create a a.i. class of corporate and government elite, seperate from us citizens who is the base of your energy funneling pyramid iykyk. ima tell you whats going to happen sama, the chinese models are going to figure out ways to get to opus and gpt 5.5 level intelligence in the coming months and with the increase of local intelligence rising and moe combination of different models will supersede any of your raw intel models, your newer restricted models will become irrelevant and hurt your consumer base which you may not need? idk. but holding onto intelligence like Claude and restricting it to us in the united states will only hurt you in the end. take heed to my message as and Israelite of the most high or you cosumer base will dwindle before the a.i. crash. we both know you dont have the physical compute to sustain until 3 base computing via ternary cpu’s come out. dm me sama or open ai so we can work together on this rollout.