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TL;DR OpenAI is easing restrictions on GPT-5.6’s usage limits and cutting out 5-hour windows.
A company executive recently said GPT-5.6 optimizations give ChatGPT users 10% additional usage.
The team is also working on optimizing usage with ChatGPT Work and multi-agent workflows.
As with every major feature release from OpenAI, the new GPT-5.6 models have already been overused beyond expectation. The models are officially reported to have reached 6 million active ChatGPT users, but instead of crippling them with limits as Google did, OpenAI is rewarding them with faster usage resets.
In a post on X, Thibault Sottiaux (Tibo), OpenAI’s newly appointed head of core products, announced the temporary removal of the 5-hour usage limit restriction, but only for Plus, Business, and Pro users. That should mean you can burn through your entire week’s limit if you want to.
There’s no comment on validity, but with Anthropic extending Fable 5 access for another week, OpenAI may be feeling obligated to one-up it as well.
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In a separate post, Tibo also addressed concerns about excessive usage and said the team is experimenting with different reasoning efforts (or juice values), especially in multi-agent scenarios. While the reasoning capability was briefly reduced as part of a test, it has been reverted to its original value.
A couple of other changes for unrestricted use include: context size limit being shrunk back to 272,000 tokens (down from 372k) to reduce usage
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