OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 in three tiers, undercuts Claude on price

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Okay, let's get into what's going on with OpenAI. The biggest news here, of course, everyone's talking about the fact that the government is forcing them to not rule out the latest model, GBT 5.6. They're arguing that this should be temporary. This is coming because Washington right now is, you know, really tightening their oversight on a lot of these different AI models. I think Anthropic had the biggest pullback because it released Fable 5 before, you know, and the government was like, hey, look, you can't let anyone with foreign access get that. And Anthropic was like, hey, look, we think this is a big misunderstanding. You guys shouldn't be regulating this. What's interesting is we also have Anthropic that just last week put out a report, or just a few days ago put out a report to, you know, some government agency where they're like, hey, look, Alibaba over in China did a model distillation attack on us with like 20 million messages to our model. They made 25,000 fake accounts and they did 20 million messages and they're going to use those messages to train their model for way cheaper. And this is dangerous, yadda yadda. And then they're like, well, I don't know why the government is trying to not let us roll out Fable 5 Well, obviously, the government's worried that when Fable 5 gets out, Alibaba is going to go and, you know, or not just Alibaba, they're probably, I mean, semi good actor in this. I don't know. But there's probably a lot of other bad actors that could do the same model distillation attack. They could do Fable 5 or anything else. So and throw up because two sides of the messaging, they're like, look, our models are so good, they're going to destroy the world. And then they're like, whoa, why are we being regulated? Anyways, so now we have this environment where the government thinks it can decide what models are good and bad. And maybe they can, maybe they can't. I don't know, a lot of people have different opinions on that. GPT 5.6 costs about $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens. Terra, which is their next one, so they have three tiers. They got Sol, Terra, and Luna. Sol is the $5, Terra is $2.50, Luna is $1.60, and Luna is $1.60. Luna is the cheapest, Sol is the best. OpenAI says Sol basically matches Anthropic Claude Mythos 5 on coding. They say they are using a third of the output tokens to build things. They have safety guardrails, and they say that's all inside of the core model behavior, rather than adding this as a separate filter.