Altman warns of 'hiccups' for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol
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- Sam Altman warned Tuesday that OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol model may face "hiccups" soon.
- The warning was framed as evidence that even leading AI companies can struggle to scale infrastructure fast enough to meet demand for cutting-edge models.
Why it matters: Even OpenAI — one of the world's leading AI companies — is publicly signaling that scaling compute and infrastructure to meet cutting-edge demand is not frictionless, putting near-term reliability of a freshly launched flagship model in question.
