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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)

#31

Not for subscribers though

How do you know? I see a “weekly usage limit” bar in my ChatGPT settings, but I’m pretty fuzzy about what makes it go down. If I stick with Luna, I can make it through the week.

ChatGPT Work and Codex use that. Normal chat has a different, unspecified limit.

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

#32

What good does a temporary price reduction do for production workloads? I'm not even running evals on something that is not long-term sustainable.

if you're picking AI models for long-term sustainability you're doing it wrong. There's really no point in locking in model choice for anything more than a month or two these days.

What about companies purchasing enterprise contracts? Most contracts are minimum 12 months. At a minimum, to secure enteprise requirements like zero-data retention, you'll need to lock into a single provider.

These price reductions are mostly targeted towards self-serve customers on individual or small team plans, where individual choice matters and the friction of changing models/providers is low.

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

#33
50% off at open router is also still applied so it comes out at $2 / $10 per 1M.

Feature request for Artificial Analysis, allow us to see these live prices on the pareto. It would amazing to also see what a 25,50,75,100 % utilised subscription costs compared to raw tokens.

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

#34
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, a stroke of luck until the whole US stock market crashes & everyone's retirement funds get cut 40% I guess when people internalize this. it will have to happen sooner or later though I suppose

I'd take a market crash over a monopoly in the hands of a ghoul like Altman. The economy he and his ilk want to build is infinitely worse.

In truth it crashes either way.

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

#35

Once they make a model better than Fable I’ll be switching to Codex. Their priorities in terms of consumers seem to be better. I do think Anthropic has some solid safety viewpoints, but I don’t necessarily think that either is entirely aligned yet with delivering exactly what humanity needs. Maybe the AI will help align the AI companies when it gets smart enough. That’s the real misalignment I’m concerned about.

I don't think these companies have humanity's needs in mind when they're developing these models. Although the last part of your comment struck me as a bit comical, I genuinely believe that an AI can have way more empathy than a corporation. Afterall, a mimicry of empathy is probably better than no empathy.

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

#36
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, a stroke of luck until the whole US stock market crashes & everyone's retirement funds get cut 40% I guess when people internalize this. it will have to happen sooner or later though I suppose

I'd take a market crash over a monopoly in the hands of a ghoul like Altman. The economy he and his ilk want to build is infinitely worse.

interestingly also, open weight models are also more effectively run in the cloud, so it creates a weird scenario where the frontier labs crash but the compute providers, not as much

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

#37
post #3

Absolutely loving this price war, long live open source models.

> long live open source models

There are no open source models, at least not useful ones (yet) [0]. Open weight is not the same as open source. The current "open weight" models are just opaque binary blobs you can run on your own computer instead of through a web API.

[0] https://allenai.org/

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

#38
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd take a market crash over a monopoly in the hands of a ghoul like Altman. The economy he and his ilk want to build is infinitely worse.

interestingly also, open weight models are also more effectively run in the cloud, so it creates a weird scenario where the frontier labs crash but the compute providers, not as much

I wouldn't be so sure about that. The popping of a bubble is usually just as irrational as its rise.

If investors start fleeing from senseless businesses in the AI sector, that does not mean that sensible businesses will be spared. These things follow herd mentality, and the primary drivers of the herd are greed and fear, not fundamentals or business logic.

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

#39
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, a stroke of luck until the whole US stock market crashes & everyone's retirement funds get cut 40% I guess when people internalize this. it will have to happen sooner or later though I suppose

I'd take a market crash over a monopoly in the hands of a ghoul like Altman. The economy he and his ilk want to build is infinitely worse.

America is pretty close to rhyming with nazi germany circa 1929.

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

#40
post #27

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.…

well, a stroke of luck until the whole US stock market crashes & everyone's retirement funds get cut 40% I guess when people internalize this. it will have to happen sooner or later though I suppose

This is funny because the stock Market has been ahistorically high. My portfolio went up over 20 percent in the last 12 months.

A major correction would be a bummer but we were never entitled to these abnormal gains in the first place.

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