I agree it’s the stronger. But realistically apart from planning and a few other scenarios it isn’t needed day in day out. Too slow to be an orchestrator.
99% of users think they need the best model for EVERY single task when they dont. Those people will then 100% moan about usage and the speed because they won’t understand when and when not to use it.
And unless I am mistaken, happy to be proved wrong, Pro variants are really just a slightly bumped up reasoning and multi agent orchestration behind the scenes, of which you can do your own multi agent orchestration to acheive the same result in Codex but cannot in ChatGPT.
@LLMJunky Normally yes, which is why you are one of the only “AI guys” i follow as you genuinely post good content.
This post seemed unusual in both style and sentiment for you, like you got caught up in the nonsense.
First and foremost, congrats on the new models.
That said, be a man and admit you like this curtailment of model releases. We all know you are a lefty faggot like Dario. So you probably can’t believe your luck that Trump admin taken such a stance.
Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price.
Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in limited preview instead of the open access launch we were planning on. We are working with the government to get to general availability as fast as we can.
I think it is quite reasonable to roll out models--especially as they reach significant new levels of capability--in this way. It fits with our long-held strategy of iterative deployment. But this isn't quite the process that we think is optimal.
Now we will with the government to attempt to get to a transparent, reliable process for early access, and to ensure that as long as our safeguards work as intended we can release widely. We want to be a reliable, dependable partner that works with all stakeholders, and we also want to live by our mission of benefiting all of humanity. I believe the government shares most of our goals, and that they are overall doing a good job in a very difficult situation.
We will work as quickly as we can to get this model in your hands and we hope you will love it.
@sama@giacomomiolo Be a man and say what you want to say. Trump would respect you more for that. The public deserve someone more brave than yourself or Dario.