OpenAI's GPT-6.1 price cut and reported $200B funding seek drive high relevance.
Context
What happened: At OpenAI DevDay 2026, Sam Altman announced 21 products and updates, including the always-on personal agent Dot, ChatGPT Spaces, and the GPT-6.1 Sol model. Bloomberg reported OpenAI plans to raise at least $30 billion in bridge financing after delaying its IPO.
Key numbers: GPT-6.1 Sol priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, one fifth of Astra.
Why it matters: OpenAI said GPT-6.1 Sol matches Astra on coding and professional tasks at lower cost, and the reported valuation could exceed Anthropic's recent $965 billion private market round.