OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
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Framing GPT‑6 Sol and Luna as “cut from the same cloth as Astra” with fewer mistakes and lower cost is OpenAI pushing toward a unified, agent-ready backbone. If your roadmap assumes today’s latency and price, you likely have headroom to move more logic and UX into model-driven flows sooner than planned.
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