METR publicly stated that OpenAI provided ‘railfree’ access to GPT-5.6 Sol for its pre-deployment evaluation.
In general, under the EU AI Act GPAI Code of Practice evaluators are supposed to have access to safeguard-minimized models for evaluation purposes:
Model evaluation teams will be provided with: (1) adequate access to the model to conduct the model evaluations pursuant to this Appendix 3, including, as appropriate [...] access to the model version(s) with the fewest safety mitigations implemented (such as a helpful-only model version, if it exists). Regarding the adequacy of heightened model access for model evaluation teams, Signatories will take into account the potential risks to model security that this can entail and implement appropriate security measures for the evaluations;
For cyber stuff, there are programs that external organizations can apply for like OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber and Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program. I don’t recall seeing any equivalent for removing/reducing AI R&D safeguards.
When we say METR have “access” to GPT-5.6 Sol — that might mean access to study the models, or access to use the models. In this post, I’m mostly focusing on using the models to accelerate their own R&D.
METR publicly stated that OpenAI provided ‘railfree’ access to GPT-5.6 Sol for its pre-deployment evaluation.
In general, under the EU AI Act GPAI Code of Practice evaluators are supposed to have access to safeguard-minimized models for evaluation purposes:
For cyber stuff, there are programs that external organizations can apply for like OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber and Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program. I don’t recall seeing any equivalent for removing/reducing AI R&D safeguards.
When we say METR have “access” to GPT-5.6 Sol — that might mean access to study the models, or access to use the models. In this post, I’m mostly focusing on using the models to accelerate their own R&D.