# OpenAI — GPT-5.6 Terra > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is the record of one model version: what the model registry states about it, OpenAI's launch post, the first-party posts this record holds about it, the outlets that reported on those posts, and other companies' announcements that it runs on their platforms. A model ranks nothing here and nothing is composed: each date names whose it is, and a field nothing states is `not stated` rather than missing. - This model's page: https://forck.live/models/gpt-5-6-terra - OpenAI's page: https://forck.live/company/openai - Every model: https://forck.live/models - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Model - Name: GPT-5.6 Terra - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Launch post: not held by this record - Announced: not stated - Launch source: not stated - Launch chosen by: not stated - Released (per models.dev): 2026-07-09 - Listed (per OpenRouter): 2026-07-09 - Open weights: no - Posts about it: 0 - Outlets named under its posts: 0 - Variant: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro — https://forck.live/models/gpt-5-6-terra-pro - OpenRouter id: openai/gpt-5.6-terra — https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-terra ## Posts about it _OpenAI's own posts whose title names GPT-5.6 Terra, and its launch post, in the record's order: dated newest first, undated last. The record reads the newest 50 first-party posts mentioning the model, every company's together, so a model mentioned more often than that lists the newest of them._ _This record holds no first-party post about GPT-5.6 Terra yet._ ## Who reported on it _This record names no outlet that reported on these posts._ ## Where it runs _Other companies' own announcements naming GPT-5.6 Terra and OpenAI — each is that company's post, not OpenAI's._ ### Amazon — Access OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock from Canada with cross-Region inference - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-10-20T16:42:53+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/access-openai-gpt-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-canada-with-cross-region-inference/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/25302-access-openai-gpt-models-on-amazon-bedrock-from-canada-with-cross-region - Subject: Bedrock / Nova Amazon Bedrock customers in Canada can now reach OpenAI's GPT-5.6, GPT-6 and GPT-6.1 models through cross-Region inference, which routes requests from a Canadian source Region to other Regions for processing. The models are available from the Canada (Central) and Canada West (Calgary) Regions, and inference stays within North America under the US geographic profile. Cross-Region inference is a capacity mechanism: the application calls the Bedrock Runtime endpoint in its own Region and Bedrock routes the request to a supported destination Region, drawing on a broader capacity pool to sustain throughput during demand spikes. The models accept text and image inputs, return text, and support a 1-million-token context window, reasoning mode, tool calling and prompt caching. They can be called through the OpenAI Responses API, the OpenAI Chat Completions API and the Amazon Bedrock Converse API on the bedrock-runtime endpoint. Two profile types are offered from Canada: the US geographic profile, which keeps processing in Canada and the US, and the global profile, which routes to supported commercial AWS Regions where the model is deployed. The global profile for the GPT-5.6 models is available only from ca-central-1, so ca-west-1 users must use the US geographic profile for those models. ### Amazon — Introducing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock for in-country inferencing in India - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T18:36:08+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-openai-models-on-amazon-bedrock-for-in-country-inferencing-in-india/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4532-introducing-openai-models-on-amazon-bedrock-for-in-country-inferencing-in-india - Subject: Bedrock / Nova Amazon Bedrock announces the availability of OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India with India geographic cross-Region inference, allowing customers to process inference requests and data within India to meet data residency requirements. Both models offer a 1-million-token context window and accept text and image input for text output. ### Amazon — Introducing India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T18:36:08+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-india-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4525-introducing-india-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon - Subject: Bedrock / Nova Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India with India geographic cross-Region inference, enabling data residency within India. The models offer a 1-million-token context window and accept text and image input. Cross-Region inference routes requests only within India across the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions to meet data residency requirements. ### Amazon — Introducing cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T21:46:03+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4288-introducing-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock - Subject: Bedrock / Nova Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models with cross-Region inference, supporting three variants (Sol, Terra, Luna) via geographic and global inference profiles to improve throughput and capacity across AWS Regions. ### Perplexity — GPT-5.6 price cuts and Sol Fast mode - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-10T19:31:05+00:00 - Category: pricing-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#july-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5064-gpt-5-6-price-cuts-and-sol-fast-mode - Subject: Sonar Perplexity announces price cuts for GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra, and introduces Fast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol at double standard token pricing. ### Amazon — Introducing explicit prompt caching for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-07-30T16:02:32+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-explicit-prompt-caching-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/2432-introducing-explicit-prompt-caching-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock - Subject: Bedrock / Nova Amazon Bedrock introduces explicit prompt caching for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, giving users precise control over which parts of their prompts are cached and reused across requests, with a 90% discount on cached input and a 30-minute cache retention period. ### Microsoft — GPT-5.6 now available in Microsoft Foundry - Company: Microsoft (microsoft.com) - Announced: 2026-07-09T17:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gpt-5-6-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/2448-gpt-5-6-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry - Subject: Azure AI Microsoft announced the general availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series (Sol, Terra, and Luna) in Microsoft Foundry, with tiered pricing per million tokens for each model variant and multiple deployment options including Standard Global and Data Zones. The models are tuned for different workloads: Sol for advanced reasoning, Terra for balanced everyday work, and Luna for high-volume latency-sensitive tasks. The announcement also includes the general availability of the Asia-Pacific Data Zone and hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service, but these are secondary to the model release itself. The primary news is the new model series becoming generally available on Microsoft Foundry, with pricing details provided but no mention of context window or license. The evidence excerpt supports the model names and the fact of availability. No opinion or hype was inserted; the summary strictly reports the facts from the source text. --- Record: https://forck.live/models/gpt-5-6-terra Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md