Company says broader access could begin as early as next week
OpenAI on Friday said it would initially share an upcoming suite of frontier models with “a small group of trusted partners” at the request of the US administration.
The company told Euractiv that, for now, all entities taking part in this preview programme are based in the United States – which would mean no European companies or regulators will have access.
European leaders have been fretting about a US clampdown on frontier AI tech since the White House earlier this month ordered OpenAI’s rival Anthropic to shut off its leading Mythos and Fable models to all non-American citizens.
Friday’s move to restrict access to OpenAI’s upcoming family of GPT 5.6 models would leave Europe without access to a bigger share of the world’s most powerful AI models.
