Hello people of Sol! I've reset usage limits for all ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Together with that, a quick update on GPT-5.6 Sol usage limits.
Over the past few weeks, many of you have told us that Sol was using your Codex limits faster than expected. To be clear, we have not reduced usage on any subscription plans.
We’ve been digging into what was happening and have landed several improvements. As a result, we expect your usage to last around 18% longer during typical use of Sol. Some of you should already see significantly larger improvements from today. Tomorrow, we’ll also restore the five-hour limit that we temporarily paused while investigating.
Here’s what we found:
- GPT-5.6 Sol is much more willing to work for longer, make additional tool calls, and coordinate complex workflows across tools and subagents. That makes it better at solving hard problems, but some tasks were using far more than we intended.
- Sol also works harder at the same reasoning effort than previous models. High on Sol can use more tokens than High did on GPT-5.5.
- Programmatic tool calling, also referred to as code mode, gives Sol much more flexibility to run tool calls in parallel or continue working while waiting. But it also led to more responses per turn, more cached input tokens, and higher usage than expected.
- This was particularly noticeable when Sol was waiting for tool calls to finish or running many web searches. We’ve improved how we handle both cases and are continuing to make code mode more efficient.
- The impact was also very uneven. The median user actually found Sol quite token efficient, while some power users working on harder tasks saw their usage drain much faster. We were very focused on average and median usage before launch and missed some cases where the long tail could use significantly more usage.
Sol is a significant step forward in what Codex can do, but capability and efficiency do not always improve at the same pace, and some issues only become clear once people are using the model at real-world scale. We should have recognized this sooner and been more upfront about it.
You keep pushing the frontier and we’ll keep improving efficiency and sharing updates as we go.
We have reset usage limits for all Codex and ChatGPT Work users.
Last night around 2am to 4am we suffered an almost global outage. All well and recovered, but you know what comes next.
We learn. We reset. Enjoy.
Great news!
The first One UI 9 Beta build for the Galaxy S25 series has been spotted on Samsung's test server.
Build: S938NKSUBZZG8/ S938NOKRBZZG8/S938NKSUBDZG8
This is a strong indication that Samsung is preparing to kick off the One UI 9 Beta Program in the coming weeks.
Build info credit: Fahad Ali Javed
Hey @thsottiaux is there any f*cking way to turn off Codex from opening on startup? No setting for that in the app??? I don't have it on any startup list either.
The mantra of the Samsung Galaxy Watch's fluidity is that, no matter how powerful its processor, it remains the slowest, slowest, and most frame-dropping of all watches. It's a mantra.
If anyone still doesn't understand what I'm talking about, just watch this video. Three Samsung widgets on the same screen have three completely different blur levels. There's no consistency whatsoever. It's honestly ridiculous. Even an elementary school student wouldn't make such a basic design mistake.
One UI 9 👀
First Feature: Secure Lock 🔒
Prevent unauthorized access with Secure Lock.
Tap the Power button in the Quick Panel to instantly disable biometrics. Your PIN, pattern or password will be required to unlock.
What do you think? 👇