OpenAI rolled out two new tiers within its OpenAI Daybreak program Monday, allowing companies to use its frontier models for some cybersecurity tasks that used to be off-limits and introducing a new security model that will only be available to those in the inner circle.
Security teams interested in using OpenAI's models are now invited to apply for Daybreak Blue, which "provides access to frontier general-purpose models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol, with safeguards tailored to authorized defensive security work," the company said in a blog post. Members of Daybreak Red will be allowed to go on offense, with "access to our purpose-trained cybersecurity models for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing," it said.
And only Daybreak Red members will be allowed to use GPT-5.6-Cyber, a brand-new model designed "to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks (e.g., finding zero-day vulnerabilities and developing exploit chains) and to reduce refusals for certain higher-risk, dual-use cyber tasks," OpenAI said. When it comes to "requests involving exploit-chain development, authentication bypass, privilege escalation, and other advanced cybersecurity scenarios," the company said "GPT‑5.6‑Cyber completes 95.0% of these requests, compared with just 1.5% for GPT‑5.6 Sol, and 2.0% when used with Daybreak Blue access."
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