OpenAI Temporarily Removes 5-Hour Limit for GPT-5.6 Sol After Demand Surge

My take: What happened this week with GPT-5.6 Sol says something beyond a routine limit update: when OpenAI launched Sol last week, demand doubled their historical peak within hours. To respond, they temporarily lifted the 5-hour cap for Plus, Pro, and Business plans, pushed 500,000 banked resets to ChatGPT Work and Codex users, and deployed efficiency improvements that add roughly 10% more available usage.

That tells me GPT-5.6 Sol is not a routine launch. The level of immediate adoption is unusual even by OpenAI's standards. People and teams working with AI tools are waiting for the most capable models and adopting them quickly when they arrive.

For those using these tools in their daily work: if you have ChatGPT Work or Codex and have not tried Sol yet, now is the moment, while limits are still relaxed. The question for teams is what part of their workflow already depends on this level of agentic capability, and whether they are ready for when the limits return permanently.