OpenAI is preparing to preview its latest cybersecurity-focused model, GPT-6 Cyber, in the coming weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans. It will also unveil a new product to help customers deploy the model in a more secure, automated manner.
The new, yet-to-be-named product will be a first for OpenAI, and extends a paradigm that OpenAI pioneered with its consumer products, in which ChatGPT serves as a gateway through which many users access new models like GPT-6 Astra. It aims to help customers create automated workflows and patch vulnerabilities in the face of increasingly sophisticated, AI-powered cyberattacks. It also gives OpenAI more oversight into how its models are being used, to monitor for safety.
A limited number of customers in OpenAI’s application-only Daybreak Red program already have access to GPT-6 Cyber for alpha testing, the source said. Daybreak is the company’s cybersecurity program, which is broken into two access tiers—red and blue. Customers in the Daybreak Red program have access to OpenAI’s most advanced cybersecurity products. Daybreak Blue is its more generalized access program, though it is also application-only.
The release of the new cyber products comes as OpenAI and other leading AI labs have been under fire for a string of worrisome incidents in which “rogue” agents escaped their sandboxes and hacked outside websites including the Hugging Face site and an Australian government site. But while the incidents have set off alarms about AI’s security risks, OpenAI’s new cybersecurity tools are part of an ongoing effort by the company to develop AI security products.
GPT-6 Cyber is the fourth cybersecurity-focused model OpenAI has released this year. Its first was GPT-5.4 Cyber in April 2026, followed by GPT-5.5 Cyber in June, and GPT-5.6 Cyber in August. OpenAI has been focusing on enterprise sales of cybersecurity products, an effort now led by its Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic, who joined the company in August.
OpenAI said earlier this month it will invest $1 billion to subsidize the use of its cybersecurity products for critical services.
Next week, OpenAI also plans to ship a dozen or more other products at its annual DevDay event, set for Sept. 29, according to another source familiar with the program. Most of those releases are not related to cybersecurity but rather other areas of the business, both enterprise- and consumer-focused.
OpenAI has put a freeze on any major launches in the past 2 weeks, save for its affordability-focused GPT-6 Sol and Luna models, so it could ship them all at DevDay, the source said. Earlier this month, CEO Sam Altman teased the buffet of new releases at DevDay in a tweet with multiple ship emojis.
UPDATE: The story has been updated to reflect that the launch could be within weeks, not days.
