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25 Apr
OpenAI Just Released GPT-5.5. Here's What It Actually Does (and What It Costs You)

<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't

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8 Apr
Meta's internal leaderboard ranks employees by AI token consumption...are we measuring the wrong thing?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>A Meta employee built a leaderboard on the company intranet called &quot;Claudeonomics&quot; that ranks token usage across 85k employees. top 250

OPINION · HOW · ArtificialInteligenceOPEN STORY
17 Jul
Kimi K3 is 4.5x the price of GPT 5.6 Sol Medium

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1uyrea7/kimi_k3_is_45x_the_price_of_gpt_56_sol_medium/"> <img alt="Kimi K3 is 4.5x the price of GPT 5.6 Sol

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
16 Oct
Something is off with token consumption this week

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>After the last reset, I went from 100% to 0% within in a day and since then used about 30k in credits. My workflow is mostly Astra running Sol

OPINION · WHEN · OpenAIOPEN STORY
30 Apr
Actual comparison between locally ran Qwen-3.6-27B and proprietary models

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey y'all!</p> <p>I've recently written a text in Russian about my experience comparing Qwen-3.6-27B with lower tier cloud models on hard tasks

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
10 Jul
"5.6 is more token efficient" - OpenAI

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I think they're saying that because they silently nerfed token usage limits on the subscription plans by 5x-10x less tokens, I have two Plus

OPINION · HOW · OpenAIOPEN STORY
3 Oct
Ultra is not so bad!

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Before yesterday’s reset, I switched to Astra Ultra to use up my remaining allowance. I expected it to burn through my usage much faster than it

OPINION · WHEN · OpenAIOPEN STORY
27 Apr
The capability gap between Frontier models is converging. What does this mean for OpenAI?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The gap between frontier models has been converging. Top players like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are rapidly approach performance parity.

OPINION · HOW · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
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