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OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

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Re: OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

#6
It's a 20% discount on input and a 33% discount on output through at least November 21, 2026; the revised pricing schedule is now

    Model       Input  Cached input  Cache writes  Output
    gpt-5.6-sol $4.00  $0.40         $5.00         $20.00
    gpt-5.6-terra
                $2.00  $0.20         $2.50         $12.00
    gpt-5.6-luna
                $0.20  $0.02         $0.25         $1.20
So Sol is still 20x Luna, but much more appealing when compared to offerings from Anthropic and others.

Re: OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

#7
Using codex every day, in spite of which, I hope some day providers will just start naming their offerings small/medium/large, a bit like we eventually started doing in software testing. Trying to remember what Sol is or why it's better than the other thing is more cognitive effort than I can muster at this point. And that's a sure sign of commoditisation in itself

Re: OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

#9
The fact that AI models can be so easily distilled and replicated is such a stroke of luck.

10 or 15 years ago if one had asked me to envision a future where a private company invents artificial intelligence, I'd have thought for sure they'd have a massive moat, be very difficult to catch, and it would create an almost instant monopoly.

Rather, it seems that selling intelligence might end up as a race to the bottom.

Who woulda thought that just having access to enough textual inputs and outputs and a vaugely similar transformer architecture would be enough to copy-cat rather useful intelligence.

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