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all largely thanks to openai daybreak giving researchers access to gpt 5.6 sol
This blanket attribution is inaccurate. At least some of the cited examples explicitly say they used publicly available GPT‑5.6 access rather than Daybreak-restricted access.
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The post attributes the listed research results broadly to OpenAI Daybreak giving researchers access to GPT‑5.6 Sol, but at least some of the named examples say the opposite.
Two examples from the list contradict the blanket claim:
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Chrome full chain by moyix / XBOW: XBOW’s own write-up says they deliberately chose a model “available to anyone” and not a specialized or restricted-access security model. Their exact wording: “We deliberately picked a model that is available to anyone, not a specialized security model or one with restricted access.” That directly conflicts with attributing this result to Daybreak access.
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WordPress RCE by hashkitten / Searchlight Cyber: Searchlight Cyber’s write-up says the
wp2shellchain was found using GPT‑5.6 Sol Ultra, costing about $25 in compute and taking about ten hours. OpenAI describedultraas a high-capability setting introduced with GPT‑5.6 general availability, not as Daybreak-only access. So this case also is not good evidence that the result depended on Daybreak.
Because the post says these results were “all largely thanks to openai daybreak”, a single explicit counterexample is enough to make the blanket statement inaccurate. Here, there are at least two cited cases where the researchers’ own descriptions point to public or generally available GPT‑5.6 access instead of Daybreak-restricted access.
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- XBOW Built a Chrome Full-Chain Exploit Affecting a Billion Users in Six Days | XBOW
These four were joined by a fifth colleague: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and its predecessors. We deliberately picked a model that is available to anyone, not a specialized security model or one with restricted access.
- wp2shell: AI, Zero-Days & the Future of Exposure Management
Using GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, it cost about $25 in compute and took roughly ten hours to uncover... Adam used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to discover the exploit chain.
- GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition | OpenAI
We’re launching the GPT‑5.6 family of models for general availability... We also introduce a new way to accelerate the most demanding work: `ultra` is our highest-capability setting, coordinating multiple agents across parallel workstreams.