# OpenAI Expands Bio Bug Bounty For GPT-5.6 > Source: > Published: 2026-07-09 20:02:18+00:00 OpenAI expanded its Bio Bounty Program on **July 9, 2026**, making **GPT-5.6** and future frontier models part of an ongoing private biosafety red-team effort and raising the top universal-jailbreak reward to **$50,000**. OpenAI says the program remains focused on jailbreaks that defeat predefined biology safeguards, with vetted applicants onboarded under NDA. The practitioner signal is that frontier-model safety is being treated more like vulnerability management: providers need scoped challenges, external researchers, and remediation paths after launch, not just one-time system-card claims. The change also preserves the original GPT-5.5 test window through July 27, so teams evaluating GPT-5.6 should watch whether live bounty findings lead to public safety updates or deployment constraints.