OpenAI releases frontier model Sol amid unclear government approval process

OpenAI has begun public release of its frontier model Sol, but experts and former officials say the government's approval process remains unclear.

• OpenAI has rolled out Sol, its latest advanced LLM, for wide public access.
• The U.S. government briefly restricted public access to Anthropic's Fable last year over concerns about jailbreaking.
• An executive order last month outlined a roadmap for evaluating frontier models but left specifics undefined.
• Former Trump policy advisor Dean W. Ball wrote that "nobody knows what the requirements are to get licensed."