The Government Banned GPT-5.6. OpenAI Released it Anyways

**Ejaaz** (0:00)
Three weeks ago, OpenAI had an AI model that you couldn't access. The government completely banned it for being too dangerous. Then, just last week, they released it for everyone to use. GPT 5.6 is available to everyone, and the first thing it did was delete someone's entire desktop file. Someone gave it autonomous access to do a small task, and it did a cleanup, which ended up deleting everyone's code, which begs the question, is this model still safe enough to use? Now, putting this catastrophe aside, I wanted to know how GPT 5.6 compares to Fable, but the truth is, it's a really good reasoning model. It's fantastic at coding, but most importantly, it's cheaper, to the tune of 50% cheaper than Fable 5 But the question on everyone's mind is, is it as good? The truth is, it's good at some things, and it's kind of terrible at other things. If it's long, agentic work, it's fantastic, but if it's high-quality code, it's less so. So there are three different models here that we're going to talk about on today's episode. Sol, which is the premium tier, Terra, which is the mid, daily use tier, and then Luna, which is the cheapest and fastest model. And we're going to put it to the test live on the show with three different demos.

**Josh** (1:05)
Yeah, I think that's the idea for this episode, as everyone kind of knows about GPT 5.6. Chances are, if you're listening to this, you're probably in the know enough to have been playing around with it. You've been using it in your ChatGPT app, or maybe your Codex app, which is now the ChatGPT app. There's a big release, there's a lot of things that happened around it. But I think the part that we're most excited to talk about is the demos, is the actual practical applications of what you could do. We've spent the last week kind of playing around with it, testing it out, seeing where those edge cases are and what the models are capable of. That way we could come to you and give you an idea of the types of things that you can go off and try with GPT 5.6, Sol, Terra and Luna. Now Sol is the flagship. Most of these demos are going to come from Sol. We kind of wanted to test the best. We wanted to see what the model is capable of and what you can actually pull out of this thing. Is it fable level in terms of production, in terms of game design, in terms of all the demos that we like to do? So that's what we're going to go through this episode. We're kind of testing things out, seeing where the edge cases are and seeing how this model lands amongst the landscape of other tools that are at your disposal. So Ejaaz, I have to ask first, are we looking at the GPT app, ChatGPT app, or the Codex app? Because I know they're separate now and the Codex app became ChatGPT.

**Ejaaz** (2:11)
Well, you're actually looking at all of them. Recently, OpenAI combined their Chatbot interface as with their coding interface with a series of other features into one super app, and that's what we're looking at on our screen today. We have to re-download an entire desktop app to get access to this thing. TBD on whether this is actually a good move, but let's work through maybe some of the demos. Now, the first one that I have on my screen here is I asked Sol 5.6, like this, I've been in New York for 10 years. I want to make a game. I love games. I've been playing games since I was a kid.
I would like you to build a 3D explorer game where I can fly around Manhattan on a magical flying bagel and collect various ingredients that go into said bagel. So, I thought about it and privy to it, it did this in one shot. So, are you ready for this, Josh? Are you ready to see? I'd love to see.

**Josh** (3:03)
Let's fly around Manhattan.

**Ejaaz** (3:04)
So, this is the loading screen. It's called Ride the Magic Bagel. Very creative thinking over there. It says, take flight to start this game. Now, I noticed there's a few little discrepancies on the design, but let's actually play the game.
So, this is me. I'm on a bagel.
It doesn't look like me. I'm going through random assortments of circles. The buildings around me, Josh, are supposedly meant to be Manhattan. If I press spacebar, I can use my cream cheese boost, as you can see on the left.

**Josh** (3:35)
Oh, lovely.