Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DROpenAI plans to initially share its newest model, GPT 5.6, only with a small group of partners due to recommendations from the Trump administration.CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government would be “approving access customer by customer.”This comes after an executive order was signed, calling on certain AI companies to voluntarily submit their new AI models for governmental review.OpenAI has just released a powerful new AI model, GPT 5.6, but it may be a while before you’ll even get to try it out. Contrary to previous rollouts, the company won’t be releasing GPT 5.6 to the public initially. Instead, it plans to share the model with only a select group of partners for now to appease the Trump administration.According to a report from The Information, CEO Sam Altman told OpenAI staff that the government would be “approving access customer by customer” when talking about GPT 5.6’s release. Altman reportedly added that if everything goes well during this limited release, the company hopes to roll the model out to the general public. It appears OpenAI expects this preview period to last for a couple of weeks.