The U.S. Department of Commerce has approved a wide-scale launch of OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.6, according to a Tuesday report from Axios, which cited a source with knowledge of the situation.
According to the report, OpenAI plans to release GPT-5.6 broadly to the public this week, following further testing and a series of meetings between company representatives and federal officials.
Reuters, which first covered the Axios report, noted it was unable to independently confirm the information. OpenAI, the White House, and the U.S. Department of Commerce had not responded to requests for comment at the time of the report.
The development comes after OpenAI announced last month that it was putting the brakes on a full public release of GPT-5.6 at the request of the U.S. government. During that delay, access to the AI model was restricted to a limited group of pre-approved partners whose identities were provided to federal authorities.
