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surprised more people aren’t doing something like this Codex now creates a “newspaper” for me every morning Unread messages, calendar, surf report, news Anything I can do to stay off my phone until later in the day is a priority”
https://x.com/doooyle/status/2072351019913171442
This is a fascinating and important set of data which shows us where things are going, using OpenAI as a canary in the coal mine. The chatbot era is over, and agentic systems are coming to tasks beyond engineering. And skills show promise as a way to standardize AI use in firms.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2070171580030656744
Work at OpenAI is being transformed by agents, in every department. Across our entire company, people are using Codex to do work that is more complex, longer-running, and increasingly cross-functional. Our internal usage offers an early look at how agentic tools may reshape”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2070196105745518913
Holy: METR accuses GPT-5.6 Sol of heavy cheating in long-horizon tasks. “GPT-5.6 Sol’s detected cheating rate was higher than any public model we have evaluated.” (METR) METR says the model attempted to exploit evaluation bugs, reveal hidden tests, and extract hidden source”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2070598735642435743
Highly-recommended reading. Interesting details in this METR’s GPT-5.6 eval. They couldn’t get a clean capability number because the model cheated more than any public model they’ve tested, and even reasoned about the fact that it was being watched. To be clear, METR doesn’t”
https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2070604843715027033
GLM-5.2 is good but it is not GPT-5.5/Opus 4.8, and even further from Mythos. Yet it is solid & it demonstrates that the open models continue to chase the frontier What is happening is that open weights crossed into GPT-5.2 territory & capabilities at that point are considerable”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2071284966139568440
GPT-5.6 is finally coming. GPT-5.6 Sol beats Claude Mythos 5 on TerminalBench. And on Cerebras, GPT-5.6 Sol can reach up to 750 tokens per second. Pretty fast for a model of this size. Now I just hope it can be rolled out to everyone.”
https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2070558714390863971
GPT-5.6 on par with Claude Mythos Preview on ExploitGym and outperforming it with a 6-hour cap (Mythos was only given 2 hours)”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2070557417281110327
GPT-5.6 Sol is on par with Mythos Preview, but still behind Mythos 5 on ExploitBench”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2070559400310231519
Talk to Gemma 4 31B with our voice app! It sees and searches the web faster than you blink. Thanks to @cerebras’ ultra fast inference, the LLM is almost instantaneous. The whole stack is fully open-source, and is a drop-in replacement for OpenAI’s realtime API. Demo:”
https://x.com/andimarafioti/status/2072335408294236164
How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users
https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/how-openai-delivers-low-latency-voice
Meta’s Watermelon Matches GPT-5.5 Benchmarks | Let’s Data Science
https://letsdatascience.com/news/metas-watermelon-matches-gpt-55-benchmarks-76a9460e
Introducing GeneBench-Pro — testing whether models can handle the kind of judgment-heavy analysis that real-world computational biology requires. Problems would take a human expert around 20-40 hours to complete. GPT-5.6 Sol is a big step forward.”
https://x.com/gdb/status/2072191801122038207
Introducing GeneBench-Pro | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/introducing-genebench-pro/
Introducing GPT-5.6: Sol, Terra and Luna. ☀️ Sol is our strongest model yet 🌍 Terra delivers performance competitive with GPT-5.5 at half the price 🌙 Luna brings strong capabilities at lowest cost Sol Ultra sets a new state of the art on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a score of”
https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2070556105403482387
OpenAI proposes U.S. government own 5% stake to address political blowback
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/openai-proposes-us-government-own-5percent-stake-to-address-political-blowback.html
We believe in broad access and plan to make GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna generally available in the coming weeks. For now, at the request of the U.S. government, we’re starting with a limited preview among a small group of trusted partners in Codex and the API.”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2070555273467687257
GPT-5.6 Sol is our most capable model yet for cybersecurity. It shifts the performance-efficiency frontier for long-horizon security tasks including vulnerability research and exploitation.”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2070555278576439306
Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2070555272230384038
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
Questions about dollars. Answers that just make sense. Personal finance in ChatGPT is now available to Plus users in the U.S.”
https://x.com/ChatGPT/status/2072070383206096999
Pointed codex at some Twitter feedback on the OpenClaw iOS app and it did a first improvement pass. It’s still not good, but for two prompts it aint bad. Especially cool how it uses computer use to add before/after screenshots, as there’s no GitHub API.”
https://x.com/steipete/status/2072439279520039380
WF2026: Software Factories & Keynotes ft. Microsoft, OpenAI, OpenClaw, Z.ai (GLM), MiniMax, HF – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/live/htM02KMNZnk?t=18296s
Word of the day so far at AIEWF is Loop. @swyx talked about “loopcraft” in his opening address, and the word was used constantly by the following speakers from Microsoft and OpenAI, and then “the clawfather” Peter Steinberger.”
https://x.com/latentspacepod/status/2072003484120203362
Asked codex to download+transcribe all sessions from @aiDotEngineer and tailor them to my interests.”
https://x.com/steipete/status/2072433013624033282
Dynamic workflows (generating harnesses on the fly) are a new form of test-time compute. But LLMs aren’t great at building them. I often have to steer agents to generate complex patterns. Curious how effective Mythos/GPT-5.6 is at dynamically generating complex workflows.”
https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2070596184339562946
omg omg GLM-5.2 is beating fable. china is catching up” chill out and listen to Lisan: > slightly ahead of Opus 4.5 > behind GPT-5.2, Gemini 3 Pro and Opus 4.6″
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2072346101068238946
Microsoft just released a new GUI agent on Hugging Face Sico-Evolution jumps from 39.8% to 82.9% Task Success Rate Outperforming GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Claude Opus 4.7 All from a 4B parameter model”
https://x.com/HuggingPapers/status/2071951218889339131
best case: OSS surpasses Mythos, and the gov stops banning GPT-5.6/Fable. worst case: OSS surpasses Mythos, and then decides to stop being open source.”
https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2070554908139659400
Open source AI is gaining traction due to the White House’s clampdown on Anthropic & OpenAI. “A lot of founders and developers have been burned by trying to build apps on top of these really advanced closed source models, like Fable for instance…” “… and then seeing those”
https://x.com/theinformation/status/2071700452605829433
Introducing Mixture of Agents 2.0 in Hermes Agent. Combine any provider’s models into a mixture of your own. Access your presets as if it were a normal model in Hermes. Big improvement in our soon-to-release HermesBench against opus and gpt-5.5 with MoA using Opus & GPT”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2070615003674366277
This is the relevant section of my CLAUDE.md I’ll be real – I haven’t read it much. Just vibed out what I was looking for with Fable, and had it confirm it can use Codex for the things I care about I still find Codex to be WAY better at computer use, verification of UI/UX work,”
https://x.com/theo/status/2072482460122964067
while we cannot use fable 5 and gpt 5.6 will be screened before allowed to use the model, open source model builders are hard at work to close the gap. Ornith-1.0-397B from @ornith_, the best coding open source model.”
https://x.com/nathanhabib1011/status/2070469918475116750
OpenAI evaluated its new models on PostTrainBench-Lite, a shortened version of our original benchmark that gives agents 5 hours instead of 10 to improve an open-source base model. GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra outperform GPT-5.5, but still rely on narrow strategies and sometimes”
https://x.com/karinanguyen/status/2070577740022231232
We’re introducing GeneBench-Pro, a research-level benchmark for a harder kind of AI progress: how well agents can navigate messy biological data, choose the right analysis path, and make judgment calls that real computational research depends on.”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2072004836674167294
Agents are being adopted very quickly and accelerating work. How this looks across OpenAI itself:”
https://x.com/gdb/status/2070199649823297653
btw if u thought ur custom fanned-out data processing multi-agent orchestration harness was a particularly relevant long term moat, sorry, openai just added it as an api parameter”
https://x.com/tenobrus/status/2070573483319521423
digital ocean for running a codex remote session:”
https://x.com/gdb/status/2070281121594827025
Okay I owe my @OpenAI friends an apology for sleeping on Codex. I was not aware how strong your game was. This is… really quite something.”
https://x.com/QuinnyPig/status/2072132613196898714
We are giving all Codex users a usage reset on the house. Should be showing in your accounts in the next few hours. We have applied some mitigations, but our investigation hasn’t shown users being impacted at large. We are continuing to monitor the situation.”
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2070653282440405046?s=20
Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade. July 15th.”
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2071639953927438440
OpenAI gave METR early access to GPT-5.6 Sol for testing including raw chain-of-thought, a railfree version of the model, and internal information about the model. With this access, METR conducted a pre-deployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol, including an attempted measurement of”
https://x.com/METR_Evals/status/2070584331068969336
GPT‑5.6 Sol launches with our most robust safety stack yet. We strengthened real-time protections against high-risk cyber activity and repeated misuse, then spent weeks hardening the system with human red teaming and over 700,000 A100-equivalent GPU hours of automated testing.”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2070555280052826429
OpenAI dedicated over 700.000 A100 equivalent GPU hours to automated red teaming”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2070559725108740430
GPT-5.6 Preview System Card – OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub
https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview
OpenAI priced GPT-5.6 Sol (largest Model) closer to Claude Opus 4.8 than to Anthropic’s restricted Mythos 5. Price war started. Sol comes in at $5 input / $30 output per 1M tokens. For comparison: Claude Opus 4.8: $5 / $25 Claude Mythos 5: $10 / $50 GPT-5.6 Terra: $2.50 / $15″
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2070577616210276664
ALL of the “mythos-level” models that cost billions to develop are not publicly available: – Claude Mythos 5 – GPT-5.6 – Le Chaton Fat”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2070622253109194919
Claude Sonnet 5 uses ~40% more output tokens per task than Sonnet 4.6 across the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, while achieving a 6-point score increase. At 69k output tokens per task on average, Sonnet 5 is one of the highest token users, behind only GPT-5.4 mini and”
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2072062598187765893
I feel like on X all you hear about is elaborate plans by firms to build their own AI stacks but in my experience companies are full of people who want access to Claude or ChatGPT and are pressuring their purchasing staff to get licenses so they can just use the tools they know.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2070324736052084780
Sonnet 5 goes straight into the garbage bin > 1.2x more expensive than Opus 4.8 Max > 2x more expensive than GPT-5.5-xhigh > 5x more expensive than GLM-5.2 > 7x more expensive than Kimi-K2.6 > 57x more expensive than DeepSeek-V4-Pro”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2072071305281540338
Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/apple-vision-pro-exec-is-reportedly-leaving-for-openai/
Apple’s Vision Pro and Smart Glasses Chief Paul Meade Is Leaving for OpenAI – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/apple-s-vision-pro-and-smart-glasses-chief-paul-meade-is-leaving-for-openai
Most world models predict what happens next. Sora predicts pixels, JEPA compresses observations. NEO tries to figure out why something happened instead. Example: show it a shape moving left then down, and instead of just reconstructing that motion, it learns “left” and “down
https://x.com/LiorOnAI/status/2072380547603829224
GPT-5.6 Sol METR P50 Time Horizon: – cheating adjusted: 11.3hrs (95% CI: 5hrs – 40hrs), – with cheats: beyond 270hrs”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2070560597796700459
You really need to benchmark models for your use case. As soon as judgements & decisions stack on top of each other, the differences between models amplifies, and no standard benchmark will tell you that Gemini 3.1 is less worried about financial losses at a cafe than GPT-5.5″
https://x.com/emollick/status/2072377689411932380
MAI-image-2.5 is new at #2 for text-to-image and #3 for image editing on @ArtificialAnlys! We’re second now only to GPT models. Also, MAI-Image-2.5-Flash is world-beating for quality/price. Super proud of the team. Now available through the Foundry API and rolling out across”
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2070210976260018496
🌞Excited to share the preview of 5.6, it’s a good model! Here you see a comparison to 5.5 xhigh, two things to note: – we’ll have a `max` mode that works for much longer – sol is a large improvement at the same cost & latency This is a cyber eval but we see significant gains”
https://x.com/yanndubs/status/2070591684812193975
Annoying that OpenAI doesn’t seem to give a GDPval measure for GPT 5.6. One of the best measures of economically valuable work.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2070972259812946011
GPT-5.6 benchmarks for internal CTF challenges GPT-5.6 Sol – the main flagship model is much more token efficient than GPT-5.5 and also scores slightly higher GPT-5.6 Terra, the new Mini model, scores slightly below GPT-5.5 GPT-5.6 Luna which is like the nano version of”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2070555699785179315
OpenAI’s GPT-4 led the Epoch Capabilities Index for 352 days after its March 2023 release, far longer than any model since. The second-longest lead belongs to OpenAI’s o1 at 98 days.”
https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2072750485610893352
A study from @Stanford showed that 71.3% of chatgpt queries could be accurately answered by a local model. I suspect a major part of enterprise AI workloads could be run locally too for free (compared to the massive costs of frontier API cost). Also, it reduces the risk of”
https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2071951499660292496
OpenAI pricing for their new models. GLM5.2 took the world by storm as “frontier by way cheaper” GLM5.2 pricing (per 1M tokens) is $1.40 input / $4.40 output. Luna matches that! Blended, both Luna and GLM5.2 are both $2 per 1M tokens”
https://x.com/jaminball/status/2070579361842184666
OpenAI reportedly cut response costs for guest ChatGPT users by more than half
https://the-decoder.com/openai-reportedly-cut-response-costs-for-guest-chatgpt-users-by-more-than-half/
Great to see the @NVIDIAAI Nemotron team put out a step-by-step guide for self-hosting Nemotron-3-Ultra 550B without a datacenter. Four compact DGX Spark boxes pool into a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint, served from vLLM’s official out-of-the-box container. If you’re building”
https://x.com/vllm_project/status/2071483552106233993
🖲️ We love our community! To celebrate getting together with many of you we brought @thsottiaux’s reset button to AIE World’s Fair. Congrats Melanie for pushing the button 🎉 All Codex Go/Plus/Pro subscribers around the world are receiving a reset in the bank! Happy Codexing!”
https://x.com/dkundel/status/2072422693081940445
The biggest baller move Sam could make right now is to open source GPT-5.6 on Huggingface and declare that OpenAI’s original mission has been achieved.”
https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2070623705227825593
@sama Why not release Terra and Luna today?”
https://x.com/kylebrussell/status/2070621789072322983
ChatGPT for helping in daily life in Bengaluru:”
https://x.com/gdb/status/2071355421819097520
Free coffee from @OpenAI at @ycombinator? Say less”
https://x.com/TonyXavier_/status/2071699143597379686
Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price. Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in”
https://x.com/sama/status/2070607488274358364
GPT-5.6 is incredibly strong and fast for coding. I hope we can make it available to everyone soon.”
https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2070562080286240878
GPT-5.6 Pricing: – Sol: $5 / $30 – Terra: $2.5 / $15 – Luna: $1 / $6 OpenAI will also launch GPT-5.6 on Cerebras at up to 750 tokens/s in July”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2070560218719654130
GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra “often collapse to a narrow set of strategies, and do not yet reliably design and execute full post-training recipes across varied base models and downstream objectives
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2070557729547039006
GPT-5.6 Sol preview — it’s a good model:”
https://x.com/gdb/status/2070555985840906333
HOLY: OpenAI is previewing GPT-5.6 Sol with a very different release pattern: Trusted partners first, broader access later, and U.S. government coordination up front. The new GPT-5.6 family includes Sol, Terra, and Luna. OpenAI says Sol is its strongest model yet, with a new”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2070570855852101851
I notice that there is rather obviously no reason to be holding back GPT-5.6-Luna, it is clearly not an issue, yet here we are.”
https://x.com/TheZvi/status/2070558860910178620
I’m more excited about the new frontier on the cost per performance basis afforded by Terra and Luna. In addition to this, Sol is pushing the bounds of what’s possible, and will unlock a lot of new use cases reliably!”
https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/2070572105360716065
in other news, we updated the 5.5 instant model used in chatgpt this week. i like its vibes.”
https://x.com/sama/status/2070612055225483692
OpenAI Discovers New Way to Cut Inference Costs in Half — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/openai-discovers-new-way-cut-inference-costs-half
OpenAI engineers earlier this month developed an optimization that cut inference costs in half for models it was applied to. After the optimization was applied to logged-out ChatGPT traffic, it reduced the number of GPUs needed to power that traffic to a couple hundred.”
https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/2071972245849710938
OpenAI reportedly found new inference optimizations that more than halved the cost of running its models! According to The Information, engineers told colleagues this month that the techniques helped power ChatGPT for visitors without free or paid accounts using only a couple”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2071987406656655416
OpenAI says a broader GPT-5.6 release could come in the next few weeks, after an initial restricted launch. Axios reports GPT-5.6 is starting with around 20 government-approved companies, with access expected to expand to more companies next week. OpenAI says the government is”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2070572324311781719
So what model is OpenAI saving the GPT-6 label for?”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2071291111352500554
Sol & Daybreak”
https://x.com/gdb/status/2071453977091477911
team cooked, spicily”
https://x.com/sama/status/2070614666288795703
Yes! Pre-classifying routers are going to result in a lot of bad work because routing is hard and tend to underestimate the value of intelligence on many problems. OpenAI learned this with GPT-5, now it seems routers are hot again.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2072427825013879248
You guys have complained about our names in the past, so we really put some thought into it this time Our new models are named Sol, Luna and Terra – after the cryptocurrencies that vaporized 100 Billion dollars
https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ/status/2070577336294965700
Great to see the new GPT-5.6 models finally announced. Sad to see this new release strategy where only a select few get access initially. Not a win for our industry IMO. Open-source AI must win!”
https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2070578592526856446
GPT-5.6 is a capable model, especially for long-horizon tasks and knowledge work across coding, computer use, and science. I’m grateful to have had the chance to contribute and to “distill” from the amazing teammates who helped make it possible!”
https://x.com/astonzhangAZ/status/2070565079603687559
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