OpenAI Claims It Cut Inference Costs in Half as GPT-5.6 'Sol' Comes Into View

Amid a wave of daily briefings, OpenAI reportedly halved inference costs and previewed GPT-5.6 Sol — the model Claude defectors are already naming as their exit.

OpenAI has reportedly cut its inference costs in half, according to @theneurondaily, which framed the moment as AI infrastructure hitting "a turning point." The same roundup noted Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 and Google's Gemini pushing personalized AI-generated images — but the inference-cost figure is the one with the clearest downstream consequences. Halving the cost of running models changes the unit economics of every product built on top of them.

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