{"slug": "openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6", "title": "OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6", "summary": "OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 family of models on Thursday, featuring three variants—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The models are positioned as OpenAI's strongest cybersecurity offering yet, with CEO Sam Altman claiming Sol is 54% more token efficient for coding tasks. The release aims to compete with Anthropic's models, with OpenAI citing benchmarks to claim superiority.", "body_md": "OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a new set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings.\n\nGPT-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 — with the company promising powerful capabilities in enterprise work, coding, and even scientific research.\n\nCEO Sam Altman has promised that his company’s newest models are orders of magnitude more efficient and cost-effective than previous versions, recently [telling CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/09/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-5-6-sol.html) that Sol is 54% more token efficient when it comes to AI coding tasks.\n\nMost notably, the company calls 5.6 its “strongest cybersecurity model yet, achieving frontier performance with significantly fewer tokens.”\n\nIndeed, much hubbub has been made about the model’s cyber capabilities, as the Trump administration previously [sought to restrict its rollout](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-limits-gpt-5-6-rollout-after-government-request-says-restrictions-shouldnt-be-the-norm/), 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).\n\nOpenAI also released a new tool called [ChatGPT Work](https://openai.com/chatgpt-work/), which — just as it sounds — 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.\n\nOpenAI’s newly announced family of models follows on the heels of similar releases this week from competitors SpaceXAI and Meta.\n\nHowever, GPT-5.6 and its attendant marketing seems most designed to take aim at OpenAI’s primary opponent, Anthropic. Anthropic has managed to make itself the [likable underdog](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/at-the-humanx-conference-everyone-was-talking-about-claude/) of the AI race, focusing fixedly on enterprise customers and winning a growing share of support as a result.\n\nNot to be outdone, OpenAI cites the [Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index](https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents), a notable benchmarking metric, to claim that its latest family of models outshines Anthropic’s models at every turn.\n\nOpenAI calls Sol its “best coding model yet,” and has explicitly compared it to Anthropic’s [recently released (and much hyped) Fable](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/anthropics-claude-fable-5-is-a-version-of-mythos-the-public-can-access-today/). Using the Coding Agent Index, OpenAI claims that Sol “sets 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.”\n\nIt adds: “That advantage extends across the family: Terra performs just above Fable 5, while Luna outperforms Opus 4.8.”\n\nThe 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.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6", "canonical_source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6/", "published_at": "2026-07-09 22:24:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 22:44:32.201023+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-startups", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "GPT-5.6", "Sam Altman", "Anthropic", "SpaceXAI", "Meta", "ChatGPT Work", "CNBC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-launches-its-new-family-of-models-with-gpt-5-6.jsonld"}}