ChatGPT maker said Friday it is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model at the request of President Donald Trump’s administration, the latest in an unprecedented government vetting of AI products that could pose cybersecurity risks.
OpenAI said its new AI product, called GPT-5.6 Sol, would only be available for now to a 鈥渟mall group of trusted partners鈥� approved by the Trump administration.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,鈥� OpenAI said in a statement. The company said it viewed the testing period as a temporary step on the 鈥減ath to broader availability in the coming weeks.鈥�
OpenAI’s staggered release of a powerful new AI system follows actions the government took earlier this month against OpenAI rival Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot.
Anthropic took offline two new AI models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, just days after publicly releasing them with a Trump directive blocking their use by foreign nationals.
Officials have grown increasingly concerned since Anthropic warned earlier this year that its Mythos model was adept at finding flaws in software in a way that could be weaponized by malicious hackers and threaten critical computer networks around the world.
Trump earlier in June signed an executive order on AI oversight that established a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced for up to 30 days before their public release. The order described participation by AI developers as voluntary but the framework has not yet been fully developed.
OpenAI said its new Sol model 鈥渋s better at helping people find and fix vulnerabilities鈥� than it is at carrying out cyberattacks and does not cross the company鈥檚 own risk threshold. But it acknowledged there could be unforeseen risks especially if its model is combined with other tools.
鈥淭hat uncertainty, along with the model鈥檚 broader step change in capabilities, is why we are pairing the model鈥檚 increased capabilities with stronger safeguards and a phased release,鈥� the company said Friday.
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