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Between August 3 and August 4, 2026, OpenAI updated its system card for two of its models: GPT 5.6 and GPT Live.
On August 3, they changed the GPT-5.6 model card to add performance on a new red-teaming approach called GPT-Red. The updated model card has been timestamped and the newly-added content is reflected as new; you can read the full model card here.
On August 4, 2026. OpenAI added the following disclaimer to their model card for GPT Live:
“We identified a configuration mismatch in the safety evaluation setup: the results had been generated using a backend configuration that did not match the final model release. We re-ran the full evaluation using the correct configuration and updated the reported results. Some values remained unchanged after rerunning, while others were corrected. We’ve added an appendix to show the original and corrected values side by side. The overall safety conclusions are unchanged; none of the regressions led to numbers below our safety launch standards.”
The current GPT Live model card, with the added comparison appendix, can be found here.