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AISN #77: New Model Publishes From OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta
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Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety.
Key facts
- It stated that GPT-5.6 showed a “16.2 point improvement over GPT-5.5” on the company’s Recursive Self-Improvement Index (RSI)—a measure of models’ ability to contribute to building improved successors
- GPT-5.6 Sol scores 45.5% on the benchmark Humanity’s Last Exam —an improvement on GPT-5.5, but still below Fable 5’s score of 46.8%
- In the same week as GPT-5.6’s public release, SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, and Meta introduced Muse Spark 1.1
- The AI Futures Project, creators of the viral scenario AI 2027, recently released a new project, called AI 2040: Plan
Summary
In this edition, they look at the most recent model releases from OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta, as well as an open letter calling for action on potential near-term economic disruption, a recent solution to a longstanding open math problem, and a new scenario published by the AI Futures Project. Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. On July 9, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 for the public. OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol publicly about two weeks after announcing that it was working with the US government to address the model’s potential cybersecurity risks.