publicly launches and makes accessible to the general public

, including via open beta or an open waitlist. 

Closed or private access does not qualify.

 The release must be explicitly announced by OpenAI as publicly accessible.

 is a newly released, next-generation, general-purpose flagship model that OpenAI identifies as among its most capable. Successors to current frontier models (e.g., 

) qualify. Task-specific, optimized, or cost-reduced variants (e.g., GPT-5.1-codex, GPT-5 mini) 

 is official OpenAI announcements, supplemented by consensus reporting from reputable outlets.