2026-10-19
OpenAI publishes work on coding in low-resource programming languages, including SQLite and COBOL migration evaluations
OpenAI published a post describing efforts to improve ChatGPT's performance across low-resource programming languages. The post introduces new evaluations covering software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.
2026-10-16
Elorian releases Glimpse, a model it says reasons with images
Elorian, an AI company, introduced its first AI model, Glimpse, which it describes as designed to reason with images rather than only about them. According to Elorian's own evaluations, Glimpse outperforms GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.
2026-10-14
Amp expands AI agents beyond code using OpenAI models
OpenAI published a customer story describing how Amp uses OpenAI models, including GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, and GPT-Live-1, to run AI agents on tasks beyond coding. The post also references Sign in with ChatGPT as part of Amp's setup.
2026-10-13
Higgsfield extends AI video length to over 10 minutes using OpenAI models
Higgsfield announced longer AI-generated videos built on OpenAI models, including GPT-6 Astra, GPT-Image-2.5 for visuals, and GPT-Live for voice-driven filmmaking. The announcement, published on OpenAI's site, states that video length extends from about 1 minute to over 10 minutes.
2026-09-29
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, near Astra at a fifth of the price
OpenAI announced GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay on September 29, 2026, a week after GPT-6 Sol. OpenAI says it delivers nearly the same results as GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at one fifth of Astra's token prices: $2 per million input tokens, $0.10 cached and $10 output. The share of responses with a factual error at low reasoning effort fell from 11.4% to 7.7%. It is available in the API, ChatGPT, Codex and GitHub Copilot.
2026-09-22
OpenAI halves mid and light tier prices with GPT-6 Sol and Luna
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026, replacing GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna. Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 output; Luna costs $0.10 and $0.50. OpenAI says these are standard prices, not a launch discount. Both share GPT-6 Astra's shape: a 1.05M context window, 128K max output, text and image in, text out. They are in ChatGPT, Codex, the API and GitHub Copilot.
2026-09-10
Vercel adds a path for deploying OpenAI Agents API apps
Vercel published support on September 10, 2026 for building on the OpenAI Agents API, using Next.js, Functions, Queues and Vercel Sandbox together. OpenAI manages the agent loop and session state, while Sandbox runs the code the agent produces.
2026-09-03
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, built around computer use
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, first to a limited set of organizations, then to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise, the API, Azure and AWS Bedrock. OpenAI's API reference lists a 1.05M context window, 128K max output, an April 30, 2026 knowledge cutoff, and $10 per million input, $1 cached, $50 per million output. OpenAI reports 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, and OSWorld 2.0 computer use in about 47% less time per task than GPT-5.6 Sol.
