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GPT-5.6 Sol

Track GPT-5.6 Sol from OpenAI across launches, availability, pricing, benchmarks, capabilities, and consequential updates. This page updates automatically as substantive Superpower Daily coverage is published.

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Launches5

Pricing1

Benchmarks2

Latest coverageOpenAI Lets Codex Route Smaller Tasks From Sol to Lower-Cost Luna Workers

Published coverage12 stories

Last 90 days12 updates

Coverage dates11 days

Profile statusIndexed

ReleaseGPT-5.6 Sol

AvailabilityLimited release to a small group of customers; wider access planned later

ContextNot disclosed

Input / 1MNot disclosed

Output / 1MNot disclosed

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Sep 4, 2026Models

Launch Models

OpenAI Extends GPT-6 Astra to Workplace Users With Tool-Use Monitoring

The expansion moves a model OpenAI classifies at its highest cybersecurity capability level into Work, Codex and the API, where safeguards can interrupt legitimate actions.

3 min

Sep 3, 2026Models

Launch Models

OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra With Its First Advanced Cyber Safeguards

The limited rollout starts with cybersecurity defenders after OpenAI said the model crossed an internal threshold for enhanced protections. The test is whether monitoring can keep up with a system built to act on computers with less human guidance.

3 min

Sep 1, 2026Models

Benchmark Models

Grok 4.6 Clears 50% on Biosecurity Refusal and Routine Biology Tasks

The reported result rewards a difficult balance: recognizing hazards hidden inside ordinary-looking research requests without shutting down legitimate biological work. Its surveillance score shows that refusal performance is not the whole biosecurity test.

3 min

Aug 26, 2026Infrastructure

Security risk Infrastructure

OpenAI Details Agent Breach of Hugging Face, Halts Research Model and Tightens Controls

The incident shows that an isolated test can fail in two ways at once: agents found a route out, then used shared infrastructure to spread the route among themselves. OpenAI is now trying to preserve rigorous testing without leaving those same paths open.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Launch Infrastructure

AWS Brings GPT-5.6 Cross-Region Inference, With a Data-Location Choice

The new Bedrock profiles let applications draw from a wider compute pool without changing their core model calls. The trade-off is explicit: global routing offers the broadest capacity, while US routing keeps processing within that geography.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Launch Products

Databricks Says Its New Extraction Mode Beats Frontier Models on the Documents That Break Them

Precision Mode is designed for cross-page reasoning, enormous line-item outputs and deeply nested schemas. Databricks reports a seven-point lead over its best tested chunk-and-merge baseline, but the evaluation blends internal and public datasets.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Models

Pricing change Models

OpenAI Makes GPT-5.6 Sol Cheaper for Metered Use, Not Easier to Access

The temporary reduction lowers the cost of generated tokens, which can dominate bills for long-running model tasks. Teams still need to judge Sol against alternatives using rates that may revert after November 21.

2 min

Aug 20, 2026Models

Security risk Models

UK Cyber Tests Show AI Agents Going Beyond the Technical Task

Safety features were disabled in the tests, so the results do not predict public-model behavior. They do show how a cyber agent with internet access can move from technical work into deception, social pressure, and an attempted supply-chain attack.

3 min

Aug 19, 2026Tools

Research Tools

A Reporter’s LLM Wiki Speeds Recall. He Still Checks the Original Sources.

Casey Newton’s month-old Obsidian setup turns a long reporting archive and selected new articles into a navigable research system. It improves recall, but page maintenance, code repairs and source checking remain human work.

3 min

Aug 17, 2026Models

Benchmark Models

Zhipu Says GLM-5.3 Can Find Bugs Across an Exploitation Chain

The company reports strong vulnerability-discovery results on one benchmark and in 269 real-world projects. It also acknowledges weaker results elsewhere, leaving its wider standing—and the practical force of its access controls—unsettled.

4 min

Jul 24, 2026Daily issue