The US government has approved OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model globally, competing with Anthropic's Fable 5, both now free to access but with aggressive a la carte pricing ahead of anticipated mega-AI IPOs. GPT-5.6's flagship 'Sol' (plus Terra and Luna tiers) went wide Thursday, joining Fable 5, redeployed July 1, while next-gen models like Mythos remain gated. Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, a ~1.5-trillion-parameter model stronger on agents, launched with its first serious pay-to-use API at ~25% of the top models' cost. SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5, drawing on its $60 billion Cursor deal, is stronger on coding, legal and finance. Both are the US 'best of the rest' at ~1.5T, running for second place behind Fable 5 (rumored 5-10T) and GPT-5.6. A post-mortem on Anthropic 'Blip 2.0' details a 20-day showdown traced back to an Amazon 'jailbreak' alarm, a June 12 Howard Lutnick call to Dario Amodei, and gradual multi-agency sign-off to a July 1 release, with Treasury's Scott Bessent first to hear of it.