OpenAI turns its bio bug bounty into an ongoing program, doubling rewards to $50K starting with GPT-5.6

GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

OpenAI is turning its GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty into an ongoing private program, now called the OpenAI Bio Bounty Program. The focus stays on universal jailbreaks that beat its biosafety challenges. Rewards jump from $25,000 to $50,000 for both GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.5, with smaller payouts possible for partial wins. GPT-5.5 testing ends July 27, 2026; after that only GPT-5.6 is in scope. Applicants need a ChatGPT account, must sign an NDA, and past GPT-5.5 applicants don't need to reapply.

Why it matters: OpenAI upgraded its bio-safety bounty from a one-off to a permanent program with doubled rewards and clearer rules — a substantive safety-mechanism update. But the audience fit is narrow: bio-jailbreak testing is far from most practitioners' daily work, so resonance is weak, k...