Perplexity rolls out GPT-6 Sol to all users, beating Opus 5 at one-fifth the price
AravSrinivas · x · 2026-09-23
Perplexity CEO Arav Srinivas announced that GPT-6 Sol is now available to all Perplexity users.
- On the in-house Wide-And-Deep-Research (WANDR) evals, it outperforms Opus 5 at one-fifth the price
- Sol becomes the "Light" effort orchestrator for Computer users, while Astra remains the orchestrator for "High" effort
- He credits OpenAI for consistently shipping pareto-optimal models
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