OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings.<\/p>\n
GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered its workhorse), Terra (a more intermediate option), and Luna (its budget-friendly option). These models expand what users can do across a variety of fields \u2014 with the company promising powerful capabilities in enterprise work, coding, and even scientific research.<\/p>\n
CEO Sam Altman has promised that his company\u2019s newest models are orders of magnitude more efficient and cost-effective than previous versions, recently telling CNBC<\/a> that Sol is 54% more token efficient when it comes to AI coding tasks.<\/p>\n Most notably, the company calls 5.6 its \u201cstrongest cybersecurity model yet, achieving frontier performance with significantly fewer tokens.\u201d <\/p>\n Indeed, much hubbub has been made about the model\u2019s cyber capabilities, as the Trump administration previously sought to restrict its rollout<\/a>, ostensibly due to fears of how the model could be misused. GPT-5.6 supports defensive activities, including threat modeling, code review and patching, and blue teaming (simulating an attack on your own systems to find weaknesses before real hackers do).<\/p>\n OpenAI also released a new tool called ChatGPT Work<\/a>, which \u2014 just as it sounds \u2014 is designed as a workplace companion for enterprise teams, running on desktop, web, and mobile, that can help with daily clerical tasks, like drafting documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s newly announced family of models follows on the heels of similar releases this week from competitors SpaceXAI and Meta.<\/p>\n However, GPT-5.6 and its attendant marketing seems most designed to take aim at OpenAI\u2019s primary opponent, Anthropic. Anthropic has managed to make itself the likable underdog<\/a> of the AI race, focusing fixedly on enterprise customers and winning a growing share of support as a result.<\/p>\n Not to be outdone, OpenAI cites the\u00a0Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index<\/a>, a notable benchmarking metric, to claim that its latest family of models outshines Anthropic\u2019s models at every turn.<\/p>\n OpenAI calls Sol its \u201cbest coding model yet,\u201d and has explicitly compared it to Anthropic\u2019s recently released (and much hyped) Fable<\/a>.\u00a0Using the Coding Agent Index, OpenAI claims that Sol \u201csets a new state of the art at 80, 2.8 points above Fable 5, while using less than half the output tokens, taking less than half the time, and costing about one-third less.\u201d<\/p>\n It adds: \u201cThat advantage extends across the family: Terra performs just above Fable 5, while Luna outperforms Opus 4.8.\u201d <\/p>\n The company says that 5.6 is now available across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. Availability per million tokens is priced as follows: Sol is $5 input \/ $30 output, Terra is $2.50 input \/ $15 output, and Luna is $1 input \/ $6 output.<\/p>\n