“Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.”
hey, remember how 6-Sol was released six days ago? don't worry about it openai.com/index/introd... I *want* to believe that the frontier is being paced, but so little of the evidence supports that
I am yet to spend $200 on deepseek this year. Not sure what kind of usage can justify $200/month of either openai or anthropic, i'm not even talking about $500. Deepseek is faster, IMO intelligence difference is negligible and it so much c…
The GPT 6 release was ... not great. Sol 6 was so bad that I switched over to Opus 5.5 exclusively. Huge regression compared to Sol 5.6, often doing really dumb things. Same for Luna. Even Astra is very unreliable for coding. Brilliant for…
There was a model called Astra-Minor, found in the files a few days ago. I assume Sol 6.1 is this, as a last minute panic rename due to Sol 6 being underwhelming while Opus 5.5 turned out really strong. I can't really explain releasing Sol…
> Cached input costs just $0.10 per million tokens—95% less than standard input pricing and 50% less than GPT‑6 Sol’s cached input pricing This is the actual big announcement. 50% cheaper cache than GPT-6 Sol will get you far more mileage …
I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-liv... Here they are for GPT-6.1-Sol: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... They'r…