The AI Price War: OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Sol, Mysterious Model Appears, and Anthropic Goes Social

OpenAI slashed developer pricing for its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20% for the next three months, dropping input costs from $5 to $4 per million tokens. The move, aimed at countering competition from Anthropic and Chinese AI models, comes just weeks after the company cut prices on its smaller models by up to 80%. This is a clear signal that the AI inference market is entering a race to the bottom, where cost efficiency—not just model intelligence—becomes the...