|
In this newsletter:
- OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol for complex tasks at one-fifth the cost
- Google launches Gemini Agent for tasks across Workspace, devices, and Slack
- Claude adds live dashboards & animated explainers, makes Docs, Slides, and Design free
Plus, you’ll find new AI tools and this week’s top AI news headlines!
| | Sponsored by Superhuman 1,000+ Claude Prompts Top Professionals Actually Use at Work Claude can be your analyst, editor, and strategist. But most professionals just use it to fix grammar. These 1,000+ Claude prompts turn it into your most powerful AI work assistant. Sign up for Superhuman AI and get:
1,000+ ready-to-use Claude prompts tested by pros at Google, Microsoft, and NASA,
plus the Superhuman AI newsletter (4 min daily) to keep you ahead in your career. | | |
⚡ OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Sol to Generate Complex Responses at One-Fifth the Cost of Its Flagship
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol that brings near-GPT-6 Astra intelligence at a fraction of the price.
What’s new:
- GPT-6.1 Sol is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, one-fifth of what GPT-6 Astra costs, with cached input at $0.10 per million tokens, making it significantly cheaper to run at scale
- On complex software engineering tasks in real codebases, it matches GPT-6 Astra’s performance at one-fifth of the cost
- On professional document work across finance, healthcare, and legal, it outperforms Claude Opus 5.5 at less than half the cost and comes close to GPT-6 Astra at one-fifth the price
- On multi-step business workflows across sales, marketing, operations, finance, and HR, it scores above Claude Opus 5.5 at roughly a third of the cost
- On computer use tasks, it outperforms the previous GPT-6 Sol by seven percentage points at less than half the cost
- On scientific research tasks including data analysis and simulation, it delivers results at $5.47 per task on average, compared to over $23 for Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra
- It is 32% less likely to give a factually incorrect answer than GPT-6 Sol at low reasoning effort
- Available now in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users, and through the OpenAI API
- GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast, with up to 8x faster token generation, is coming to Codex in the coming days
Why it matters:
Frontier AI models have always come with a trade-off: the best results cost the most to run, and most teams either overpay or settle for less. GPT-6.1 Sol closes that gap in a meaningful way.
For anyone who has been holding off on building with GPT-6 Astra because the cost does not pencil out, this changes the calculation.
Read more about the GPT-6.1 Sol launch!
|