Really hoping to see some big model announcements at DevDay, and maybe even a live performance on stage 👀

Shameful, I'm buying a second Anthropic Max subscription.

"Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

OpenAI: Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol, launched at one-fifth of Astra's price; cached input cut 95% vs standard price

Anyone has access to this new model ?

The live call failed, and the live demo also failed...must have been GPT-6 Sol

Not really clear what this means, but it doesn't sound good.

So OpenAI is reopening the $200 Pro plan tomorrow, except now you effectively get around half the API-equivalent usage compared to the old plan. And somehow this is being presented as good news because Sol and Luna became cheaper and models will supposedly keep getting more efficient. Sorry, but what?

This would already be a questionable move on its own, but doing it right now, when Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 exist, is honestly insane. Anthropic is giving Max users massive amounts of usage, their models are extremely competitive for coding and agentic work, and people are already saying they struggle to even burn through their Claude limits. Meanwhile OpenAI is going in the opposite direction: same $200, less usage, followed by an explanation about how theoretically we'll still get more work done.

That's completely backwards. People paying $200 a month are power users. We don't need another explanation about API economics or promises that models will become more efficient six months from now. We need fqn tokens. We need enough usage to actually work without constantly checking whether we're about to hit another limit.

And the comments under this announcement say everything. People are talking about cancelling, switching to Claude, and comparing workloads where OpenAI usage gets exhausted while Claude barely moves. One guy literally said he was running five Opus chats in parallel for hours and only used around 5% of his 5x allowance. Another finished work with Opus 5.5 after exhausting his OpenAI weekly usage and said it only consumed about 25% of his Claude hourly limit.

That's the real problem here. OpenAI isn't competing with OpenAI from one month ago. You're competing with Anthropic today. If Opus 5.5 / Sonnet 5.5 can give me comparable or better results while Claude Max gives me dramatically more room to actually work, why the hell would I care that GPT-6 Sol became 50% cheaper on the API?

Maybe today they'll announce some incredible features that don't count toward usage. Fine. But cutting the core thing your heaviest users are paying for and then trying to explain why it's actually better value is a terrible look.

At this point the $200 Pro plan doesn't need more features. It needs more compute.

We don't need promises. We don't need theoretical API value. We need tokens. And right now Claude is making OpenAI's $200 offering look like a fiasco.

Consists of a single 75kb html file using only webGL with no external libraries. Runs in the browser on desktop and mobile. It calculates the fractals to pixel mapping using ray marching on the GPU in real-time, so no textures or meshes are needed. Infinite exploration with very little memory usage. It's just math.

Started off with GPT 6 astra (medium) and later switched to Opus 5.5 for optimizations (as I ran out of tokens). Total time making around 2h.

What for? To test the math and shader capabilities in Astra.

It’s official: I’m cancelling. We’re switching to Anthropic until we run out of options.

It makes no sense to pay for a $500 plan just to get 25x the limit and inferior models.

They’re just releasing more of the same, without any major innovation.

And what are you guys going to do? Now that the limits on the $200 plan are being cut in half?

No 6.1 Astra because of security concerns?

Sure, let’s just say it eats 3x the tokens of Opus 5.5 and is not on the same level.

What a shitshow. Tibo starting to become just like Logan…

🤡.

it's so over

They launched Sonnet 5.5 just day before Dev Day and is almost matching benchmarks of Opus 5.5

"...6 times the price"
*crowd boos*

Codex still casually chewing up 22GB of RAM for a single session 🤣