**[OpenAI Plans to Provide GPT-5.6 Sol Pro Free to 100,000 Researchers]** According to monitoring by Beating Insights, OpenAI has launched "ChatGPT for Academic Researchers," aiming to provide cutting-edge models and research tools free of charge to 100,000 researchers by 2027. The first batch of 10,000 researchers will gain access this summer, with initial tools including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, ChatGPT Work, and Codex. Participants will also receive additional Deep Research credits, higher usage limits, and extended context capabilities. The platform comes equipped with over 75 life sciences skills and can connect to paper repositories, public genome databases, and computational notebooks. This benefit is not available to all university personnel. Applicants must belong to research-focused universities selected by OpenAI and verify their institutional affiliation, ongoing projects, and scientific use cases. Approved participants can invite up to four collaborators from the same institution, and data will not be used for training by default. [Original Link]