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  • 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're not notably different from the GPT-6 family pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-pelicans-gr...

    by simonw
  • I love free market competition. We're getting insane advancements every day. I remember when llms used to cost an arm and a leg for decent intelligence
    by Nevin1901
  • I must say that this AI thing is going more or less as I felt it would back about a year ago. I think there is no real moat in AI models. It's a commodity and the big labs have predictably been caught in a race to the bottom. Not sure if this is going to turn better or worse for all of us common folks. I must say I'm a bit happy though in the sense that "intelligence" is not going to be controlled and be rented out by a small minority.
    by whatifitoldyou
  • Ominous for the industry and investors that token price is becoming the main battleground. Could be Anthropic's rationale for IPOing this year.
    by gradus_ad
  • > 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 on Codex.

    by minimaxir
  • 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 vision, sometimes just great, but it also often does very stupid things.

    I'm a bit sour on OpenAI right now and skeptical that 6.1 will be much different.

    (Note: this is after preferring and shilling Codex/OpenAI models for the last half year)

    by the_duke
  • 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 6 in any other way, especially mere days ago.
    by revolvingthrow
  • 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 cheaper that i no longer care about how much i use it. I never hit any daily/weekly quota or anything like that while working or tinkering. At this point i am OK with being 6 months behind the "frontier", purely on bang-for-buck basis and who cares which shadowy government gets my data.
    by proxysna

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