OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna) to Everyone July 9 and Unveils GPT-Live Full-Duplex Voice — Altman Posts 'Happy Building'

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Two weeks after limiting the rollout to 'trusted partners' at the U.S. government's request, OpenAI confirmed the full GPT-5.6 family goes public July 9, with Sam Altman tersely marking the moment 'Happy building' on X late July 8. Alongside it, OpenAI is rolling out GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, a new voice generation that listens and speaks simultaneously for genuinely conversational turn-taking. For builders, the government-hold-then-release pattern is the real signal: frontier launches are now gated by national-security review, and full-duplex voice reopens the assistant-UX design space.