For practitioners, founder commentary that frames model behavior with childhood-development metaphors tends to raise public expectations and complicate objective assessment of reported emergent capabilities. India Today reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on X that his “older kid put two words together for the first time” and that he is “approximately as amazed by this cognitive feat as I am by GPT-5.6 discovering new math.” India Today also reports that OpenAI released GPT-5.6 models as part of a restricted preview last month following a request from the US government, and that Altman did not detail what “new math” refers to. India Today says the post produced mixed reactions online and that there are rumors of a wider release of GPT-5.6 later this week.
