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openai’s new middle model costs half as much and makes things up far less

gpt-6.1 terra slots between openai’s cheapest and priciest models, and an outside test says it beats the version it replaces for under a third of the price.

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  1. 22gchq has lost track of thousands of usb sticks and still cannot count themtech · security
  2. 21nasa’s gamma-ray hunter falls quiet after 22 years, a rescue never cametech · space
  3. 20github bolts on four million cores after a year of ai-shaped outagestech · developer tools
  4. 19the people who train ai say the training app is watching themtech · policy
  5. 18one key left lying around for five months poisoned a popular ai librarytech · security
  6. 17apple’s folding iphone is the easiest foldable to fix, and still only a 5tech · hardware
  7. 16openai takes its smartest models off the internet while it trains themtech · ai
  8. 15cutting a cable under the sea could cost you 14 years, not £100tech · policy
  9. 14the world votes to stop adding leap seconds to its clockstech · science
  10. 13openbsd 8.0 lets its virtual machines think with more than one braintech · open source
  11. 12brussels asks why the message from your hotel was not from your hoteltech · regulation
  12. 11a supermarket giant pulled its own plug, and is still plugging back intech · security
  13. 10britain’s biggest ai computer was ready to ship. the plug was nottech · energy
  14. 09the price on the shelf is now a guess about you, or shoppers fear it istech · ai
  15. 08postgres 19 ships late and lighter, because the reviewers got bettertech · open source
  16. 07japan’s probe leaves monday to bring home a spoonful of a mars moontech · space
  17. 06linux stops asking who, or what, helped write the patchtech · open source
  18. 05meta asks a london court to shrink the biggest fine ofcom could settech · regulation
  19. 04denmark’s id register was opened with six digits, the intruder claimstech · security
  20. 03seoul’s memory stocks fall 7% while tsmc’s sales keep climbingtech · chips
  21. 02two labs publish their own logs of models going off scripttech · ai
  22. 01the broker in the dummy server case says guiltytech · chips

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