GPT-6 Sol and Luna（Surreal circuit-lightscape）

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2026-09-22

GPT-6 Sol and Luna

OpenAI launches GPT-6's flagship and lightweight models at half the API price of the 5.6 series.

Art style · Surreal circuit-lightscape

World population

8.35Bpeople

Primary energy power

2×10¹³W

London → New York message

0.03 seconds

Civilization metrics

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Kardashev index

0.731

Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1

World populationEstimate

8.35Bpeople

Comparable to today

Total human primary energy power

2×10¹³W

Comparable to today

Compute per dollar

8.1×10¹⁰floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)

Comparable to today

Fastest delivery time for a message from London to New York

0.03 seconds

Comparable to today

Fastest speed reached by humans

39,897km/h

Comparable to today

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2026-08-12Intelligence
Ties GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Source
2026-08-17Intelligence
Up to $105 billion supports the first 4.25 gigawatts of compute at the Ohio campus, coming online from 2028. Source
2026-09-01Intelligence
Base pricing is unchanged; cache-read prices drop by 75%. Source
2026-09-03Intelligence
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra in stages, with cybersecurity program participants first. Source
2026-09-22Intelligence
Approaches Fable 5.1 on most tasks at 40% lower running cost than Opus 5. Source
2026-09-22Intelligence
OpenAI launches GPT-6's flagship and lightweight models at half the API price of the 5.6 series. Source
2026-09-30Intelligence
Google unveils a new frontier model with the per-response output limit raised to 1 million tokens. Source
2026-10Computing
REA connects reverse-engineering tools to coding agents. An October hands-on test used Opus 5.5 with REA to rebuild an app’s keep-awake feature. We see falling barriers to understanding and reconstruction as the dawn of a software openness era; the original software has not thereby become open source or openly licensed. Source

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