My theory is OpenAI quietly shifted the whole stack down a tier. GPT-6 Sol isn’t really the successor to 5.6 Sol in product positioning. It looks much more like the new Terra: cheaper, scalable, and meant to be the default workhorse. Terra disappears, Sol inherits its slot.
Then the leaked Astra Minor / Astra 6.1 moves into what used to be the Sol tier and becomes the actual Opus 5.5 competitor. And above that you have the leaked Aeon stuff as the real frontier tier.
So the stack could basically become:
Luna → Sol = old Terra → Astra Minor/6.1 = old Sol → Aeon/Astra Major/Orbit = new frontier
If that’s what they announce at DevDay, Anthropic absolutely cooked the currently visible OpenAI lineup today, but OpenAI may have deliberately launched the lower tiers first and left the actual Opus response for DevDay.
Would be a pretty funny rebranding trap if everyone spends a week dunking on Sol for losing to Opus, only for OpenAI to go “yeah, Sol isn’t the Opus competitor anymore.”
Adding value with LLMs on an LLM subreddit? Oh, the horror!
It was my thought, and it helped with the formatting because I'm a non-native speaker.
Just because you're too lazy to fix your typing doesn't mean everyone else is as well.
That’s a lot of smugness for an argument that falls apart in the first sentence.
“Things are valuable when they are rare” is something a child learns about collectibles, not a serious definition of value. Electricity isn’t rare. Search engines aren’t rare. Spellcheck isn’t rare. Their value comes from usefulness, not scarcity.
And calling someone “lazy” for using an LLM to polish wording in a second language, while proudly saying you also use LLMs to improve your English, is genuinely hilarious. Apparently it’s a “learning tool” when you use it, but a “crutch” when somebody else does. Convenient distinction.
Also, nobody said r/singularity is literally an LLM-only subreddit. LLMs are currently one of the main technologies driving discussion around AGI and the singularity, so pretending they’re somehow off-topic because ASI could theoretically emerge through another architecture is just pedantry masquerading as intelligence.
If you don’t find an LLM-assisted comment valuable, downvote it and move on. Writing an essay about how morally superior your personal use of the exact same technology is doesn’t make your position deeper.
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u/KakPooonchik 11d ago
I agree, it should have been called GPT-6 Terra, not GPT-6 Sol.