Release25d ago
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast across API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work: near-Astra intelligence, up to 8x Sol Standard, $12/$60 per 1M tokens
On Oct 8 OpenAI Developers said Ultrafast for GPT-6.1 Sol is rolling out in the API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work. Docs confirm service_tier ultrafast at 6x Standard ($12/$60 short-context), with US/EU residency; Codex/Work access on Pro $500 and eligible Enterprise/Edu. Codex also shipped instant steering the same day.
Release6d ago
DiffuSpace, founded by the HKU Dream team, open-sources Clover-35B-A3B, a diffusion LLM hitting 680 tokens/s on one GPU and 73.6 on SWE-bench Verified
On Oct 28 DiffuSpace, whose members come from the HKU NLP group behind Dream 7B, released its first model, Clover-35B-A3B-Preview: a mixture-of-experts diffusion language model initialized from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, with 35B total and about 3B active parameters, a 128K context window and block-parallel denoising. Vendor-reported results include 73.6 on SWE-bench Verified, 51.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 83.8 on GPQA Diamond, with 680 tokens/s on a single GB300 in agent workloads. Weights are Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face, ModelScope and GitHub, with SGLang and llama.cpp support.
Release28d ago
Codex kicks off "28 days of improvements or a full reset": Day 1 makes GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol ~50% faster by default, including OpenCode, Pi, Amp and Devin via Sign in with ChatGPT
On Oct 5, Codex lead Thibault "Tibo" Sottiaux committed that for the next 28 days OpenAI will ship one clear improvement for most Codex/ChatGPT Work users each day, or give everyone a full usage reset. Day 1 is an inference speedup: GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol are ~50% faster by default on subscriptions (roughly 30 to 50 tokens/s), including partner tools using Sign in with ChatGPT. No API speed change was announced.
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