Rumor has it that OpenAI might drop GPT-5.6 to the public as early as July 7th, with a launch window of July 7–9, according to tech leaker Leo. The new model is expected to come with more generous usage limits, and OpenAI is reportedly tightening safety protocols ahead of the release.
Over at Google DeepMind, Gemini 3.5 Pro is said to be arriving a bit later, tentatively on July 17th. Another tipster, Astro Polo, claims the model will support a 2 million token context window — dwarfing what Claude Sonnet 5 and other rivals offer.