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OpenAI announced GPT-6.1 Sol, a new model offering near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard API token prices. The release is part of a broader DevDay 2026 push that included over 20 announcements, spanning ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, and security tools.

Model Releases • OpenAI News

Prompt Tips

When better prompts stop improving results, treat the AI as a control problem: adjust parameters like temperature and max tokens instead of rewriting prompts endlessly.

Productivity

Offload large summarization tasks from cloud AI to on-device models to save costs and improve privacy, as shown by using macOS 27's fm command-line tool with Claude Code.

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an open-weight mixture-of-experts LLM with 78 billion parameters that uses about 3.5 billion per token. Trained on infrastructure in Germany and Finland, it is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Productivity

Choose the right model and tune reasoning effort for your task to avoid wasting compute and time