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GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast Released

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast with 8x faster speeds and Instant Steering, bringing near-Astra intelligence to real-time AI work.

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Oct 09, 2026
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GPT-6 Fully Open to All!

GPT-6 Fully Open to All!

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Yesterday, OpenAI opened GPT-6 to all users, free and paid. Today it launched a new model: the Ultrafast version of GPT-6.1 Sol. Paired with an updated model control system, it can respond to user instruction changes in real time.

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Turbocharged

GPT-6.1 Sol itself only launched at DevDay on September 29, positioned as “near-Astra capability at one-fifth the price.” Standard API pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, already one of the best-value frontier models available.

Ultrafast mode takes that and pushes speed up by 8x.

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