OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol announcement went from 362 to 956 points on Hacker News in 16 hours
362 → 956upvotes in 16 h · 839 commentsabout 29× the typical pace of other tracked Hacker News stories
OpenAI's announcement of GPT-6.1 Sol, a model that delivers near-Astra-level intelligence at one-fifth of Astra's token prices: two dollars per million input tokens and ten dollars per million output tokens, versus ten and fifty dollars for Astra.
Up 594 points in 16 hours. 839 comments.
Why it matters: If you run batch jobs, summarize documents, or generate content at volume, token costs dropping from ten and fifty dollars per million to two and ten dollars changes the ROI calculation on workflows you previously could not afford to automate. The real test is how close Sol gets to Astra on the tasks you actually run.
A fifth of the price matters more than near-Astra intelligence if near means nine-tenths on your task.