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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
Pricing moves are competitive signals as much as product ones: OpenAI cutting cost per token on a frontier-adjacent model is a direct shot at anyone trying to win enterprise workloads on cost efficiency, including open-weight and Chinese model providers. For builders, this is the moment to re-run your cost models on any workflow you shelved because token spend didn't pencil out. Watch whether Anthropic and Google respond with matching cuts within the quarter.