Sam's News — gpt — 2026-07-31¶
TL;DR¶
- OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 model prices by up to 80% amid AI cost pressures
- OpenAI launches free ChatGPT access program for 100,000 academic researchers
AI Economics¶
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 model prices by up to 80% amid AI cost pressures¶
OpenAI slashed prices on its GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra models just three weeks after launch, as competition from cheaper Chinese AI providers and enterprise cost scrutiny pressure the market.
- Luna price cut 80%: from $1/$6 to $0.20/$1.20 per million tokens
- Terra price cut 20%: from $2.50/$15 to $2/$12 per million tokens
- Flagship Sol unchanged at $5/$30 per million tokens
- New Fast mode for Sol offers 2.5x speed at double price
- DeepSeek prices at $0.435/$0.87; Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6 now costs more than Terra
Sources: Yahoo Finance Research, Quartz Research, OpenAI RSS, VentureBeat RSS, forbes.com RSS, InfoWorld RSS
AI¶
OpenAI launches free ChatGPT access program for 100,000 academic researchers¶
OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program offering complimentary access to the AI model for up to 100,000 researchers worldwide.
Sources: Pulse 2.0 RSS, R&D World RSS, thelec.net RSS, HPCwire RSS