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Weren't there headlines just yesterday that they weren't releasing this due to safety concerns?
GPT-6.1 Astra is what those headlines referred to. This is GPT-6.1 Sol.
"no homerS -- we're allowed to have one"
https://amphetamem.es/meme?id=the-simpsons_06_12_71&text=We%...
That was 6.1 Astra. And I'm assuming it's being tabled because it still doesn't match Opus 5.5.
This is a decent win though, if it really is better. 6-sol was really no good, at least in my work.
6 Sol was worse than 5.6 Sol from my own experiences. Far worse.
Will see if this remedies things.
Yup, same experience here. I used it for one day, spent the next day fixing its lousy code, then went back to 5.6.
API price cuts were obvious once they made their announcement changing how usage is counted.
These moves all make sense when you take into account the enterprise market.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889873
Shots fired, half the price of Opus 5.5.
Wasn't 6 released like last week? I can't keep up anymore.
Yes but it was underwhelming, so the seem to have rushed 6.1 Sol out. Also Opus 5.5 may have spooked them too.
Do you need to? Do you always keep up with all the version bumps on the software you use?
Ominous for the industry and investors that token price is becoming the main battleground. Could be Anthropic's rationale for IPOing this year.
Great for the consumer.
I remember when bandwidth was super expensive and now it’s dirt cheap.
If these models are so smart, can't _they_ select the right model for each task?
the right model for the task is the one that transfers the maximum amount of USD from your pocket to the provider's bank account.
No because then I'll go to the competition.
Why don't you simply ask the respective model which model is best for a specific task? :-)
What's driving the increase in release cadence here? We seem to get new models every week or so now, is this RSI?
No.
Wanting to have the newer model than the competitor, presumably.
Aka "we made an oopsie last week and released what should have been GPT 6 Terra with the name GPT 6 Sol"
It's relentless, isn't it?
Astra is a pretty impressive model. Excited to try this.
I love free market competition. We're getting insane advancements every day. I remember when llms used to cost an arm and a leg for decent intelligence
This is great. But maybe part of the motivation is that 6-Sol wasn't as good as initially advertised so they needed to tweak it. I felt a clear degradation in quality in some simple refactoring tasks vs 5.6-Sol.
Guys, are we slowing down yet?
I wish they'd list the environmental cost. My employer has an unlimited AI budget so I don't care about using Astra if it's just more profit for OpenAI. I care more if it actually uses 5x more energy.
A night of no sleep this one will be.
Okay, now price cut 6 Sol (and rename it to Terra again).
GPT-6 Sol released a week ago. Shortest model life ever?
I wonder if releasing this soon sort of validates the rumor that Sol 6 was just the Terra model they bumped up and slashed the price.
Then Opus 5.5 caught them off guard and now they're actually releasing the correct sized model.
This is cute but when do we get 6.1 Astra?
Why is the little dog barking? Where be the big dog?
Looking at the token prices, if this is half as good as 6-Astra for 3D model creation in Blender, it's going to be an absolute game changer.
Opus 5.5 is definitely better at coding, but nothing even comes close to 6-Astra for work in 3D graphics...
This is the actual big announcement. 50% cheaper cache than GPT-6 Sol will get you far more mileage on Codex.
So yesterday we were consumed with how this was being delayed because of safety, yada yada.
Guess not?
I can blow through my weekly on astra in a few hours; hopefully this really is as good.