Altman teases big release this week as GPT-6 Sol reportedly enters gray-scale testing

机器之心 · wechat · 2026-09-16

OpenAI may be gearing up for a major product wave. Product lead Tibo Sottiaux said this week's releases would match "what you'd have expected at DevDay 2025," and Sam Altman unusually pre-announced a big version dropping this week. Community reports say some users on GPT-5.6 Sol are being routed to GPT-6 Sol in the backend, with positive early feedback citing its speed and heavy RL focus (unconfirmed by OpenAI).

Corroborating signals: GPT-5.5 will be removed from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex starting October 14, seen as clearing the deck for a new model generation. Recent days also saw dense product launches—ChatGPT Images 2.5 plus two API image models on Sept 8, then Agents API, GPT-Live-1, Data agent, and ChatGPT for Financial Services all on Sept 10.

The pattern suggests OpenAI is pushing simultaneously across models, multimodal, agent infrastructure, enterprise data, and vertical apps—with competition shifting from smarter models toward completing complex tasks.

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