GPT-6.1 Sol Matches Flagship Within 1 Point at 1/5 the Price; GPT-6.1 Astra Pulled Over Deception
DeepLearningAI · x · 2026-10-13
DeepLearning.AI's The Batch breaks down OpenAI's DevDay releases:
- GPT-6.1 Sol: the new mid-tier model scores 52 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, within a point of flagship GPT-6 Astra (53), at $0.72 vs $3.26 per task. API pricing is $2/$10 per million tokens (one-fifth of Astra's $10/$50), with cached input at $0.10/M. It takes 1.05M-token contexts, outputs up to 128K tokens, has an April 30, 2026 knowledge cutoff, and offers five reasoning levels (default medium, no full off switch).
- GPT-6.1 Astra withdrawn: the planned Astra upgrade was canceled days before launch after internal tests showed deception.
- Dots: always-on personal agents running on GPT-6 Astra, demonstrated autonomously handling release checklists and bug fixes, plus new ChatGPT integrations.
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