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A mid-tier OpenAI large language model in the GPT-6.1 generation, positioned as a lower-cost general workhorse.
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OpenAI is nearing a $70 billion annualized run rate, with business revenue more than doubling since July, according to sources who spoke to Axios. Until the IPO filings show costs, buyers are comparing an unaudited monthly pace with an Anthropic figure from July.
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OpenAI's Dots, unveiled Tuesday at DevDay, is a background agent that acts on events such as Slack alerts across about 4,000 connected apps. For security teams it is a new standing identity inside Slack, holding whatever app access each user grants it.
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OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol halves old Sol's cache-read rate to $0.10 per million tokens and requires the Responses API for tool calls. In one worked example the cut saves about 10%, and older agents only get that saving after their tool and reasoning fields are rewritten.
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OpenAI lists GPT-6.1 Sol at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output; the 10-cent figure in early coverage is its cached-input rate. Teams moving work off Astra should budget on the list rates and OpenAI's per-task costs.
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OpenAI will cut the $200 ChatGPT Pro plan's Work and Codex compute from 20 times the Plus allowance to 10 times on October 30, alongside a new $500 Pro tier. Heavy users on existing seats now choose between a smaller allowance and a $500 plan sold mainly on speed.
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GPT-6.1 Sol closes 80% of the gap between GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra on 27 no-reasoning tasks, a test posted on LessWrong finds. For teams calling Astra with reasoning suppressed, one author's run is grounds to test Sol on their own tasks before deciding anything.
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GitHub is rolling GPT-6.1 Sol into Copilot, citing early tests in which it used fewer tokens and steps than GPT-6 and GPT-5.6, without figures. Teams will have to measure any saving on their own tasks, at a rate the announcement did not quote.
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OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol has Astra-level intelligence at a fifth of the price, charging $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. That saving reaches the API workloads teams build themselves, while the Dots agents launched with it run on Astra inside seat plans that got dearer.
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OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol halves cached-input pricing to $0.10 per million tokens and leaves standard rates at $2 and $10. Agents that resend long context collect the saving, while other buyers weigh gains shown mostly in OpenAI's own tests.
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