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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

OpenAI announced GPT‑5.6, a new model that advances the price-performance frontier, offering improved efficiency and lower cost per token compared to its predecessor. The company claims the model achieves state-of-the-art results on key benchmarks while reducing inference costs by up to 40%.

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https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867

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