OpenAI fan concedes Astra and Sol are not smarter than Opus 5.5
A self-described OpenAI fan calls for objectivity: Astra is expensive and Sol is cheap, but neither beats Opus 5.5, and efficiency is not the same as intelligence.
As an OpenAI fanboy it bothers me to see posts criticizing Opus 5.5 Let's be objective, neither GPT-6 Astra nor GPT-6.1 Sol is smarter than Opus 5.5, and being more efficient doesn't automatically make them better. People calling Opus 5.5 a token-burning machine are exaggerating too, Opus 5.5 high uses fewer tokens per task than GPT-6.1 Sol while getting better scores Astra is still expensive however efficient it is, and GPT-6.1 Sol is cheap, but not everyone is looking for the lowest cost, we want a fast and smart model. Intelligence isn't intelligence per dollar, it's just intelligence, lower costs are a welcome bonus We can't expect models to improve if every time a lab that isn't our favorite releases a model that beats everything else we pretend it didn't happen