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"We believe in broad access, and we plan to make GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. As part of our ongoing engagement with th

"We believe in broad access, and we plan to make GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. As part of our ongoing engagement with the U.S. government, we previewed our plans and the models’ capabilities ahead of today’s launch. At their request, we are starting with a limited preview for a small group of trusted partners whose participation has been shared with the government, before releasing more broadly. During this preview, we will continue testing and coordinating closely with partners as we work toward broader availability. We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default. It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them. We are taking this short-term step because we believe it is the strongest path to broader availability in the coming weeks, while we work with the Administration to develop the cyber Executive Order framework and a repeatable process for future model releases." This amount of courting the current administration is pretty scary imo.

lend000 4mo ago
Anthropic's fear-mongering and marketing is the reason we have these restrictions in the first place. Despite their virtue signaling, Anthropic is the only major lab that has never released an open weights model, has been caught intentionally nerfing a model after release (Opus 4.6), intentionally and silently degrades performance for suspected competitors and AI researchers, complains incessantly about distillation when everyone is doing it (and after they settled for pirating books), and wants to pull the ladder out from everyone trying to catch up. They're anti-consumer and only concerned with holding the power themselves. I'm not a fan of Altman, but Anthropic is the worst actor in the space, and I hope they lose.
- tiahura 4mo ago
  What about openai's fear mongering, or googles, or JP Morgans, or Frank Herbert's, or Arthur C. Clarke's or Samuel Butler's? If you can't envision plausible scenarios where very bad things happen because of a malevolent actor, ChatGPT 6, and a little bad luck - you need to think harder.
  - sixothree 4mo ago
    They aren't the current target for right wing hated.
  - lend000 4mo ago
    Yeah honestly I don't get any of the fear-mongering from any side. If access to intelligence and knowledge is scary to you, that's a you problem. Is it going to change the world? Yes. In more positive ways than negative ways. Websites will continue to get hacked, as they are already getting hacked. People who are afraid of AI are really just afraid of change.
- prash20026 4mo ago
  Hasn't OpenAI being doing it for a while too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465269
  - scrlk 4mo ago
    The common denominator between "GPT-2 is too dangerous to release" and Anthropic is Dario.
    - llelouch 4mo ago
      Sam Altman was doing interviews talking about p(doom). They all were requesting regulation just not this opaque ad hoc kind.
  - lend000 4mo ago
    Ironically, Google is the company I'd prefer to have the frontier models.
- boc 4mo ago
  > Anthropic's fear-mongering I mean it's fear-mongering until it isn't. I think people have become a bit too comfortable with dismissing the dangers of misaligned AI as simply "marketing hype".
- intended 4mo ago
  Anthropic is the lightning rod. Everyone in the space was talking about the automation of work from about day 2. People couldn’t stop themselves from talking about the way it was going to end work, and tech firms were firing people left right and center over AI. Notably, Anthropic is the firm that stuck to its guns with the US Government, meaning they likely believe in their own spiel.
dominotw 4mo ago
current players in the space love the regulatory capture
- fsloth 4mo ago
  There is no bad publicity! I wonder if OpenAI explicilty asked for this.
chasd00 4mo ago
I wonder what's going to happen when the administration rolls over to the OtherTeam(tm). If they've established a good relationship with Team A then Team B is automatically going to hate their guts.
- speedgoose 4mo ago
  Perhaps they estimate that the administration won’t change for a long long time.
  - AnimalMuppet 4mo ago
    2 years and 6 months is a long time, at least in the AI space.
onelesd 4mo ago
Sam playing the regulatory capture game.
Aeolun 4mo ago
This is pure openai though. I can call anthropic misguided, but openai is just slimy.
tiahura 4mo ago
Do you feel the same way about FDA approvals? I mean, it seems like common sense - a limited beta test before widespread rollout. I'm not convinced they'll ever come up with a good framework for dealing with the cyber & bio issues, but getting triggered by a beta test rollout seems overboard.
- loudmax 4mo ago
  It is common sense, and with literally any other administration in the past century it would seem like a good idea. I have zero confidence that this particular administration has any interest in regulating the industry for the good of the country, much less for the good of humanity. They will use regulation to maximize personal profit for themselves and their cronies, at the expense of the nation. I would not have thought that of any other US administration in the past 100 years. In the longer run, it probably won't matter. If the level of corruption we see currently becomes the norm, then the US is facing much bigger problems than counter-productive industrial policy.
  - dgellow 4mo ago
    It has already become the norm
- ascorbic 4mo ago
  The FDA has incredibly detailed guidelines that need to be followed, and a clear process to be followed. This is none of that.
  - tiahura 4mo ago
    If you're arguing they should have believed the AI doomer hype years ago and developed decades of regs at the drop of a hat, sure, i guess you can. That's a topic for historians. But, the question today is what to do today, a rolling deployment seems pretty hard to argue with. I'd add, I think it's significant that we haven't seen any administration grandstanding on this specific issue - no Hegseth tweets etc.
- swiftcoder 4mo ago
tomComb 4mo ago
> This amount of courting the current administration is pretty scary imo. That’s ironic – I interpreted that paragraph with the opposite slant: positively. If that’s what the government mandates then these companies, in the end, have little choice, so was at least relieved to see them publicly pushing back.
- logicchains 4mo ago
  >these companies, in the end, have little choice They absolutely do have a choice, Anthropic and OpenAI could fight it in court. Iran showed Trump is a coward, he wouldn't risk tanking the only industry still keeping the stock market growing.
  - derwiki 4mo ago
    It’s all speculation but I think he would have no qualms about tanking the only industry keeping the stock market growing. But given Kushner’s OAI investments, Trump stands to benefit personally from not tanking the industry.
    - WinstonSmith84 4mo ago
      That's hardly a speculation that he cares very much about the stock market, more than any of his predecessors. It's also why he takes a L instead of going into an adventure in Tehran. Last but not least, "it's the economy, ..." is on everyone's mind, including his
  - inquirerGeneral 4mo ago
    [dead]
  - ls612 4mo ago
    “Wouldn’t it be a shame if we export controlled all of your models and revoked the visas and green cards of all of your non US researchers. You should really reconsider challenging our orders in court. Also remember you have 16% public support and if the president endorsed it a national data center moratorium would pass with bipartisan majorities.”
mohsen1 4mo ago
NYT's The Daily covered this a few days ago. Has a few interesting details about what went on... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/podcasts/the-daily/trump-ai-regulation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/podcasts/the-daily/trump-...
stronglikedan 4mo ago
seems pretty smart to me. opens doors and provides opportunities that those that don't court the government will miss out on. of course, if they're principled, that's okay (regardless of which admin it is), but the reality is most companies aren't. gotta get a leg up somehow.

lend000 4mo ago

Anthropic's fear-mongering and marketing is the reason we have these restrictions in the first place. Despite their virtue signaling, Anthropic is the only major lab that has never released an open weights model, has been caught intentionally nerfing a model after release (Opus 4.6), intentionally and silently degrades performance for suspected competitors and AI researchers, complains incessantly about distillation when everyone is doing it (and after they settled for pirating books), and wants to pull the ladder out from everyone trying to catch up. They're anti-consumer and only concerned with holding the power themselves. I'm not a fan of Altman, but Anthropic is the worst actor in the space, and I hope they lose.

tiahura 4mo ago
What about openai's fear mongering, or googles, or JP Morgans, or Frank Herbert's, or Arthur C. Clarke's or Samuel Butler's? If you can't envision plausible scenarios where very bad things happen because of a malevolent actor, ChatGPT 6, and a little bad luck - you need to think harder.
- sixothree 4mo ago
  They aren't the current target for right wing hated.
- lend000 4mo ago
  Yeah honestly I don't get any of the fear-mongering from any side. If access to intelligence and knowledge is scary to you, that's a you problem. Is it going to change the world? Yes. In more positive ways than negative ways. Websites will continue to get hacked, as they are already getting hacked. People who are afraid of AI are really just afraid of change.
prash20026 4mo ago
Hasn't OpenAI being doing it for a while too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465269
- scrlk 4mo ago
  The common denominator between "GPT-2 is too dangerous to release" and Anthropic is Dario.
  - llelouch 4mo ago
    Sam Altman was doing interviews talking about p(doom). They all were requesting regulation just not this opaque ad hoc kind.
- lend000 4mo ago
  Ironically, Google is the company I'd prefer to have the frontier models.
boc 4mo ago
> Anthropic's fear-mongering I mean it's fear-mongering until it isn't. I think people have become a bit too comfortable with dismissing the dangers of misaligned AI as simply "marketing hype".
intended 4mo ago
Anthropic is the lightning rod. Everyone in the space was talking about the automation of work from about day 2. People couldn’t stop themselves from talking about the way it was going to end work, and tech firms were firing people left right and center over AI. Notably, Anthropic is the firm that stuck to its guns with the US Government, meaning they likely believe in their own spiel.

dominotw 4mo ago

current players in the space love the regulatory capture

fsloth 4mo ago
There is no bad publicity! I wonder if OpenAI explicilty asked for this.

chasd00 4mo ago

I wonder what's going to happen when the administration rolls over to the OtherTeam(tm). If they've established a good relationship with Team A then Team B is automatically going to hate their guts.

speedgoose 4mo ago
Perhaps they estimate that the administration won’t change for a long long time.
- AnimalMuppet 4mo ago
  2 years and 6 months is a long time, at least in the AI space.

onelesd 4mo ago

Sam playing the regulatory capture game.

Aeolun 4mo ago

This is pure openai though. I can call anthropic misguided, but openai is just slimy.

tiahura 4mo ago

Do you feel the same way about FDA approvals? I mean, it seems like common sense - a limited beta test before widespread rollout. I'm not convinced they'll ever come up with a good framework for dealing with the cyber & bio issues, but getting triggered by a beta test rollout seems overboard.

loudmax 4mo ago
It is common sense, and with literally any other administration in the past century it would seem like a good idea. I have zero confidence that this particular administration has any interest in regulating the industry for the good of the country, much less for the good of humanity. They will use regulation to maximize personal profit for themselves and their cronies, at the expense of the nation. I would not have thought that of any other US administration in the past 100 years. In the longer run, it probably won't matter. If the level of corruption we see currently becomes the norm, then the US is facing much bigger problems than counter-productive industrial policy.
- dgellow 4mo ago
  It has already become the norm
ascorbic 4mo ago
The FDA has incredibly detailed guidelines that need to be followed, and a clear process to be followed. This is none of that.
- tiahura 4mo ago
  If you're arguing they should have believed the AI doomer hype years ago and developed decades of regs at the drop of a hat, sure, i guess you can. That's a topic for historians. But, the question today is what to do today, a rolling deployment seems pretty hard to argue with. I'd add, I think it's significant that we haven't seen any administration grandstanding on this specific issue - no Hegseth tweets etc.
swiftcoder 4mo ago

tomComb 4mo ago

> This amount of courting the current administration is pretty scary imo. That’s ironic – I interpreted that paragraph with the opposite slant: positively. If that’s what the government mandates then these companies, in the end, have little choice, so was at least relieved to see them publicly pushing back.

logicchains 4mo ago
>these companies, in the end, have little choice They absolutely do have a choice, Anthropic and OpenAI could fight it in court. Iran showed Trump is a coward, he wouldn't risk tanking the only industry still keeping the stock market growing.
- derwiki 4mo ago
  It’s all speculation but I think he would have no qualms about tanking the only industry keeping the stock market growing. But given Kushner’s OAI investments, Trump stands to benefit personally from not tanking the industry.
  - WinstonSmith84 4mo ago
    That's hardly a speculation that he cares very much about the stock market, more than any of his predecessors. It's also why he takes a L instead of going into an adventure in Tehran. Last but not least, "it's the economy, ..." is on everyone's mind, including his
- inquirerGeneral 4mo ago
  [dead]
- ls612 4mo ago
  “Wouldn’t it be a shame if we export controlled all of your models and revoked the visas and green cards of all of your non US researchers. You should really reconsider challenging our orders in court. Also remember you have 16% public support and if the president endorsed it a national data center moratorium would pass with bipartisan majorities.”

mohsen1 4mo ago

NYT's The Daily covered this a few days ago. Has a few interesting details about what went on... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/podcasts/the-daily/trump-ai-regulation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/podcasts/the-daily/trump-...

stronglikedan 4mo ago

seems pretty smart to me. opens doors and provides opportunities that those that don't court the government will miss out on. of course, if they're principled, that's okay (regardless of which admin it is), but the reality is most companies aren't. gotta get a leg up somehow.