OpenAI's 28-day shipping challenge may bring a cheaper model than Astra
Tibo started a 28-day challenge to ship something new every day, with a speed boost and text watermarking already out, and the author guesses one release will be a cheaper, better model than Astra.

OpenAI might drop a new model within the next 27 days. Tibo started a challenge where the team ships something new every day for 28 days. Yesterday we got - speed boost - text watermark which leaves 26 more drops (ads in image generation isn't worldwide yet so didn't add) I reckon one of them is a model that’s cheaper and better than Astra. (Maybe 6.1 Sol Ultrafast) not moved by challenge tho, Devday got all the hype in the world but flowed if we're being honest but let’s see how it plays out.
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