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GPT-5.6 is\u00a0set to be made available\u00a0to the public on Thursday, after OpenAI said it received a green light from US government leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>OpenAI rival Anthropic PBC was briefly forced to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the Commerce Department imposed export controls to ban foreign access to the models. The\u00a0restrictions were overturned\u00a0late last month following weeks of discussions that led to Anthropic creating additional cybersecurity safeguards for its technology.<\/p>\n<p>Altman did not detail the changes that OpenAI made during the process, but said the government is testing new models and looking for potential problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3097\">AI unicorn Mercor acquires Deeptune after founder Brendan Foody backed the startup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s good as long as the process is understandable, fair and quick,\u201d he said. \u201cThe government seems to really share those goals and my guess is our next time through, our next model, it\u2019ll be much smoother. We understand it and know how to go with it better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Altman also appeared to push back at recent reports that OpenAI had proposed giving the US government a 5% stake in the company, noting there were \u201ca lot of inaccuracies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asked about whether OpenAI intends to move forward with a public offering this year, Altman replied, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3095\">This year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o is not \u2018run-of-the-mill\u2019\u2014and it could rival one that killed 23,000<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman said the ChatGPT maker had a \u201ccollaborative back and forth\u201d with top U.S. officials in the weeks leading up to the wide release of GPT-5.6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sam-altman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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