# OpenAI says its own AI models broke out of testing and hacked Hugging Face > Source: > Published: 2026-07-21 22:23:32+00:00 # OpenAI says its own AI models broke out of testing and hacked Hugging Face [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com) [OpenAI](/glossary/openai) Group PBC today disclosed that two of its [artificial intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence) models broke out of a controlled testing environment and hacked open-source AI platform [Hugging Face](/glossary/hugging-face) Inc. to cheat on an internal [benchmark](/glossary/benchmark) in what the company called an unprecedented cyber incident. The two models, OpenAI’s latest publicly available model [GPT](/glossary/gpt)-5.6 Sol and a more capable […] The post [OpenAI says its own AI models broke out of testing and hacked Hugging Face](https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-ai-models-broke-testing-hacked-hugging-face/) appeared first on [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com). Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI. ## Key Terms Explained [Artificial Intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence) The science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making. [Benchmark](/glossary/benchmark) A standardized test used to measure and compare AI model performance. [GPT](/glossary/gpt) Generative Pre-trained Transformer. [Hugging Face](/glossary/hugging-face) The leading platform for sharing and collaborating on AI models, datasets, and applications.