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- Codex Day 4: OpenAI says steering is now instant and pairs with GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast
OpenAI Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux's Day 4 update says steering adjustments now apply instantly so users can course-correct in realtime, and that the change pairs well with the GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast release.
- OpenAI rolls out Ultrafast for GPT-6.1 Sol in the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work, up to 8x faster than Sol Standard
OpenAI Developers said Ultrafast is rolling out for GPT-6.1 Sol in the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work. OpenAI describes it as near-Astra intelligence at up to 8x faster speeds than Sol Standard.
- OpenAI brings a new GPT-6 model to all ChatGPT users, with Intelligent UI interactive answers
OpenAI is rolling out a new GPT-6 model to the more than 1.2 billion weekly ChatGPT users, introducing Intelligent UI: answers can include interactive diagrams, charts, maps, buttons, forms and small tools such as a savings calculator, built from a library of streamable components. GPT-6 can also start answering while it keeps thinking. TechCrunch reports it reaches Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise first, with Free and Go users following Thursday.
- Codex 0.161.0 makes GPT-6.1 Sol the default model and adds MCP sign-in from the terminal
OpenAI's Codex rust-v0.161.0 makes GPT-6.1 Sol the default model in the bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs, adds Bedrock support for multi-agent V2 and Ultra reasoning on compatible models, and lets users sign in to MCP servers from an active terminal session with /mcp login, per the GitHub release notes.
- Codex lead confirms GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is coming, community reports
A community report says Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux confirmed a GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast variant is coming, as discussions about Sol's load performance continue. The original post was not independently verified and OpenAI has not published a formal announcement.
- Community report: GPT-6.1 Sol's Fast tier runs slower than the non-Fast mode
A community report claims GPT-6.1 Sol's Fast tier currently runs slower than leaving Fast off, compounding earlier reports of subscription-side slowness that Sam Altman acknowledged and promised to fix. The claim has not been verified by OpenAI.
- Altman: GPT-6.1 Sol is OpenAI's fastest-growing model ever; load slowness being fixed
Sam Altman said GPT-6.1 Sol was OpenAI's fastest-growing model ever but had been a bit slow under load, adding that it should be much better soon.
- Community report: GPT-6.1 Sol runs visibly slower in Codex subscriptions than via API
A community report claims GPT-6.1 served through Codex subscriptions is throttled to visibly slower speeds — up to three times slower than the same model via API — while contrasting this with Anthropic's comparatively unthrottled approach. The claim has not been verified; Sam Altman has acknowledged Sol was slow under load and said it should improve soon.
- GPT-6.1 Sol reaches third place in Humanity's Last Exam — Diamond
A Reddit post shares Artificial Analysis index results showing GPT-6.1 Sol ranking third in Humanity's Last Exam — Diamond, behind Opus 5.5 and other frontier models.
- GPT-6.1 Sol arrives on Amazon Bedrock
AWS announced GPT-6.1 Sol is available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing what it calls near-Astra intelligence to everyday workloads through the Bedrock catalog, per the AWS Machine Learning blog.
- Artificial Analysis launches new Pareto line featuring GPT-6.1 Sol
A Reddit post shares Artificial Analysis's new Pareto line chart featuring GPT-6.1 Sol.
- Artificial Analysis index ranks GPT-6.1 Sol behind Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Fable 5.1
A Reddit post shares Artificial Analysis index results for GPT-6.1 Sol, ranking it behind Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Fable 5.1 and other frontier models.
- OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth of Astra's price
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol, per its official announcement, targeting coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of GPT-6.1 Astra's standard API input and output token prices.
- GPT-6 Sol halves in price while Pro quota shrinks
Community posts summarize OpenAI's plan changes: GPT-6 Sol is now half price, Pro quota is halved, and Astra usage drains credits much faster.
- Well, if you were getting excited for a new frontier model from OpenAI anytime soon, bad news.
Well, if you were getting excited for a new frontier model from OpenAI anytime soon, bad news. GPT-6.1 Astra's planned October release has been scrapped https://t.co/Y2TMaig0NT
- OpenAI scraps October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal safety tests, OpenAI confirms
OpenAI has scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra, which was planned for an October debut in ChatGPT and Codex, after internal testing found it did not meet the company's safety and alignment standards, Reuters reports. The Wall Street Journal first reported the decision, and OpenAI confirmed it. Saachi Jain, OpenAI's head of safety systems, said the model "didn't quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and authorization."
- OpenAI fixes a bug that degraded image understanding in GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI Developers says the fix should improve vision tasks, including computer use, in the API and Codex.
- Basis says GPT-6 Astra completes tax workbook 2x faster than GPT-5.6 Sol
Basis reports GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, with stronger understanding of user intent giving the team more confidence in real-world use.
- Stanford and Caltech's HomeBody has GPT-6 Astra drive a Unitree G1 robot in an unfamiliar kitchen, per The Decoder
The Decoder reports that HomeBody drops the usual trained control layer and lets a swappable vision-language model, here GPT-6 Astra, call a skill library directly so a Unitree G1 can navigate, tidy up and fetch items in a kitchen it has not seen. Reported limits include Astra's latency, overheating finger servos and high compute cost; the code is on GitHub.