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GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna: three pricing tiers, ultra mode with subagents

Line of three models: Sol — flagship, $5/$30 per million tokens input/output; Terra — GPT-5.5 level at half price, $2.5/$15; Luna — budget tier, $1/$6. Ultra mode deploys sub-agents for complex tasks, claimed support for defensive security (threat modeling, patching, blue team). Weights closed, API/ChatGPT access only.

Subagent orchestration in ultra mode — the same concept as multi-agent orchestration in Claude Code, implemented earlier at Anthropic Anthropic Claude →
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GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex: long context, vision, 80% SWE-bench

GPT-5.2 (Instant/Thinking/Pro) improved long-context, vision and tool calling; Thinking achieved 80% on SWE-bench Verified and 98.7% on Tau2-bench Telecom. Separate GPT-5.2-Codex — specialized for agentic coding. Weights closed, access only via API/ChatGPT.

direct competitor in agentic coding (Claude Code / Opus), also closed weights Anthropic Claude →
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GPT-5.1: adaptive reasoning and custom personalities

GPT-5.1 Instant/Thinking added adaptive reasoning (model decides whether to reason before responding) and 8 default personality presets. GPT-5.1-Codex-Max and GPT-5.1 Pro released a week later on 19.11.2025. Weights closed, access only via API/ChatGPT; by March 2026 the line was discontinued on ChatGPT in favor of GPT-5.2.

Also closed weights, competing flagship model on the same cycle — Opus 4.5 released 12 days after GPT-5.1 Anthropic Claude →
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AgentKit: visual agent builder and Connector Registry

At DevDay 2025, OpenAI released AgentKit — Agent Builder (visual canvas workflows, beta), ChatKit (chat widget, GA), Evals for Agents, and Connector Registry for tool integration. On 3 June 2026, OpenAI announced sunset of Agent Builder and Evals — both leaving platform by 30.11.2026.

Same visual workflow builder with integrations; AgentKit is already being partially wound down (Agent Builder discontinued 30.11.2026), n8n is a mature open-source tool without that risk n8n →Connector Registry solves the same tool integration task as MCP protocol but proprietary and only within OpenAI's platform MCP →
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gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b: first open weights from OpenAI's GPT line

OpenAI released two reasoning models (117B and 21B parameters, MoE, Apache 2.0 license)—first open weights from the company since 2019. gpt-oss-120b runs on single 80GB GPU, benchmarks near o4-mini, exceeds it on AIME 2024/2025 and HealthBench. Weights published: self-host in your own infrastructure without OpenAI cloud dependency.

Also open weights for self-hosting — direct competitor in the deployment model Meta Llama →open weights, same self-hosted reasoning-model segment Alibaba Qwen →

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