OpenAI Staffer Details GPT-5.6 Sol Reasoning Level Use Cases
The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-11
OpenAI employee Vaibhav Srivastav shared use-case recommendations for the five reasoning levels (from Light to xhigh) of the GPT-5.6 Sol model. The model also features Max and Ultra modes, allowing for the parallel deployment of multiple sub-agents. He advises starting with a lower reasoning level and scaling up only when necessary.
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