DevDay Deep Dive: Dots Demo Stalls Live, GPT-6.1 Sol Cuts Costs, Ultrafast Sells Speed
AGI Hunt · wechat · 2026-09-30
A detailed walkthrough of OpenAI DevDay 2026: Altman cited 1.2B weekly ChatGPT users and 40+ models in a year, with Anthropic's price-matched Sonnet 5.5 looming the day before.
- Dots: Astra-powered always-on agents with their own cloud computer, connecting to 4,000+ apps. The live demo stalled mid-call (the Codex voice demo also broke twice). Security: sandboxed cloud computers, read-only background tools, mandatory user handoff for passwords/transfers, plus an independent auto-review. HN called it 'hosted OpenClaw'; Every's CEO reports frequent bugs.
- GPT-6.1 Sol: $2/$0.1/$10 pricing with cache price halved again — cache is the big bill for long-running agents. DeepSWE v1.1: 75.2% at $0.65/task vs Astra's 74.1% at $4.43. Computer-use safety failure rate dropped to 4.3% (GPT-6 Sol: 17.4%). 1.05M context, 128K output.
- Ultrafast/Pro500: 8x speed at 6x price (Astra Ultrafast $60/$300 per million tokens), gated behind the $500/month Pro500; reopened Pro200 quietly cut quota from 20x to 10x with 62,500 credits as compensation.
- Decisions API: choice-only inference returning in 150ms (vs 1.6s normal), a clear answer to TypeSafe AI's Jev but with image input support.
- Also: ChatGPT Space/Pages, cloud-native Codex, Agents API with Computer Use and AWS Bedrock Managed Agents, Sign in with ChatGPT, zero-retention Private Intelligence. No hardware; GPT-6.1 Astra reportedly shelved over fabrication issues.
Related event: OpenAI DevDay Launches GPT-6.1 Sol and Ultrafast Speed Tier(56 posts)→
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