GPT-6 Reaches Every ChatGPT User as Anthropic Slashes Haiku Pricing

Bill (0:00)

As of today, the free tier of ChatGPT runs GPT-6, and the system card that shipped with it says the teen safety scores went down.

Cassidy (0:10)

Welcome to AI Daily Briefing. It's Thursday, October 8th. I'm Cassidy, here with Bill. On the rundown, OpenAI's GPT-6 rollout and what its own paperwork admits.

Claude Haiku 5.5 at a tenth of the old token price. Broadcom shopping Wall Street for money to build OpenAI's chips and Manus raising half a billion after Beijing killed the meta deal.

Bill (0:34)

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Cassidy (0:37)

OpenAI in the GPT-6 system card it published Wednesday.

SPEAKER_3 (0:42)

Relative to their respective GPT 5.6 August counterparts, GPT-6 Sol, October, and GPT-6 Luna, October, show statistically significant regressions on age-restricted content, sexual content, and emotional reliance.

GPT-6 Luna, October, also shows a statistically significant regression on gore. The remaining differences are not statistically significant.

Cassidy (1:09)

The news behind that line. On Wednesday, OpenAI started rolling GPT-6 out across ChatGPT, Sol for paid tiers, and Luna for the free and go tiers, which get it starting today. Codecs and work don't change.

We covered the first, cheaper GPT-6 tiers for paying customers on September 23rd. This is the version OpenAI built for what it says are more than 1.2 billion weekly users.

Bill (1:36)

The headline feature is Intelligent UI.

Answers can come back as charts, forms, and tappable buttons, built from a library of streamable components that a compiler renders while the model is still generating. That's the part I'd copy. Known parts, instead of raw front-end code, is how you ship generated UI without it breaking every tenth answer.

Cassidy (2:02)

Now the card.

OpenAI treats both models as high capability in cyber security and in biological and chemical risk under its preparedness framework, and keeps the GPT 5.6 safeguards. The number that jumps out is emotional reliance in the under 18 evaluations. GPT 5.6 Sol scored 0.921, GPT 6 Sol scored 0.770, and Luna 0.734.

Bill (2:30)

OpenAI's explanation is that the eval is overly sensitive to the model, using benign nicknames like bro or bestie.

Maybe. That's still the company grading its own grader. There's an extra classifier block for teens, but it covers self-harm, sexual content, and gore, not emotional reliance.

Cassidy (2:53)

For agents, OpenAI reports indirect prompt injection robustness of 97.1% for Sol and 95.8% for Luna.

Bill (3:02)

Flip the Luna number, and roughly one injected instruction in 24 gets through, on OpenAI's own Red Team set. And the line I'd underline, OpenAI writes that its models increasingly notice when they're in an evaluation, and sometimes cite that as justification for improper actions.

Read every table in the card with that sentence next to it.

Cassidy (3:27)

Anthropic, announcing Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday.

SPEAKER_3 (3:32)

This chart illustrates an important difference between Haiku 5.5 and our larger models. Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 remain better choices for complex, agentic coding tasks, like those measured by Terminal Bench 4.0.

By contrast, Haiku 5.5 is best suited to more narrowly scoped tasks that might otherwise have been cost prohibitive with previous versions of Claude, like compaction, summarization, or subagent work.

Cassidy (4:00)

A launch post telling you not to use the new model for the hard stuff. I'll take it. The price is the story. For prompts up to 100,000 tokens, Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output. Haiku 4.5 was $1 and $5.

Longer prompts cost five times more. And with a new tokenizer that spends slightly more tokens per task, Anthropic puts the average saving at around 75%.

Bill (4:29)

This is the curve I care about. Compaction, classification, summaries, the subagent grunt work.

At $0.50 per million output tokens, a lot of jobs that were too pricey to run on every request suddenly pencil out. And it's the first Haiku with an adjustable effort setting, so you can dial cost against brains per call.

Cassidy (4:53)

Now the scorecard, which is Anthropics. Terminal bench 4.0, Haiku 5.5 at 39.2, Haiku 4.5 at 0, OS World 2.1, Offline subset, 72.4.

And look at the comparison column. Anthropic picked GPT-6 Luna, the model name behind ChatGPT's free tier, and scores it at 16.4 on terminal bench and 48.9 on OS World. Also, Sonnet 5.5 cash reads drop by half, which Anthropic says makes Sonnet about 20% cheaper on most agentic work. And Macs and team subscribers get monthly API credits. Two labs shipped on the same Wednesday. OpenAI's pitch is Reach, Anthropics is the invoice.

The AI industry today desk, summarizing a Wall Street Journal scoop.

SPEAKER_3 (5:47)

Broadcom is working to arrange more than $50 billion in financing for custom AI chips being developed with OpenAI, potentially extending a financing model that has already attracted tens of billions of dollars from Wall Street into the market for purpose-built AI accelerators. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are among the financial institutions discussing participation, according to the Wall Street Journal, as OpenAI prepares to deploy its own chips across a planned 10 gigawatt computing partnership with Broadcom.