OpenAI’s next ChatGPT-5.6 upgrade may be too powerful to launch like a normal app update
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A frontier model that needs a staged, non-standard rollout is a governance and safety story, not just a feature drop. If you’re building on top of these APIs, plan for capability jumps to come with new rate limits, policy constraints, and review gates — not just higher-quality responses.
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