OpenAI begins broad rollout of GPT-5.6 in three tiers alongside ChatGPT Work
OpenAI has begun a wide commercial rollout of GPT-5.6 in Luna, Terra and Sol tiers, paired with ChatGPT Work, a mode for long-running background tasks, after a period of staggered access and Commerce Department review.
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OpenAI has begun the broad commercial rollout of GPT-5.6, offered in three compute tiers named Luna, Terra and Sol, together with a new execution environment called ChatGPT Work, AI.cm reported on October 11.
According to the report, the release follows weeks of staggered access and a review of the model's capabilities by the U.S. Department of Commerce before it was cleared for wide deployment.
ChatGPT Work is designed as an asynchronous task runner: users hand it objectives such as compiling datasets, generating test suites across large code repositories or running multi-step document audits, and the agent works on them in the background, the report said.