OpenAI has announced the date for the public release of its new AI systems. The release was delayed due to the White House.

OpenAI will make its most powerful artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.6, available to the public on Thursday, July 9, according to a company post on the social media platform X. Three versions of the model will become available simultaneously: the most powerful, Sol; the mid-range version, Terra; and the most cost-effective, Luna, Reuters reported.

In late June, OpenAI granted access to the model only to a limited group of partners. The company reported that it did so at the request of U.S. authorities. Now, President Donald Trump’s administration has allowed OpenAI to make its cutting-edge developments public, Axios reported, citing sources. The decision was made following additional testing and meetings between company representatives and the U.S. administration, the publication claims.

The White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters.

In early June, Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a “voluntary cooperation program” for cooperation, under which the government would be able to request early access to private companies’ cutting-edge artificial intelligence models—up to 30 days before their public release. “We do not believe that this process of granting access to the government should become the long-term norm,” OpenAI wrote in a statement regarding the restriction of access to GPT-5.6.

OpenAI's decision to make its new models widely available came shortly after the U.S. lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models. In mid-June, the Trump administration ordered that these models be blocked for foreign users on national security grounds.

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