U.S. Commerce Department Center for AI Standards and Innovation

New Capabilities

Evaluated GPT-5.6 during the restricted preview

OpenAI's newest AI models sat in a federal holding pen for two weeks, limited to about 20 government-approved partners while the Commerce Department audited their abilities in coding, biology, and cybersecurity. On Thursday the Trump administration cleared the GPT-5.6 family for public release, and OpenAI switched on a new workplace agent at the same time.

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