Evening brief

Friday, July 10

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TL;DR OpenAI’s full July 9 launch package: GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna went public after a 12-day White House review, Sol runs at 750 tokens/sec on Cerebras hardware, and a new agentic product called ChatGPT Work landed alongside it. sama confirmed the model was altered “many times” during government talks.

Models & research

  • model-releases sama GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna are publicly live as of July 9 after the Trump administration cleared the release. Sol: $5/$30 per M tokens, flagship reasoning and long-horizon agentic work. Terra: $2.50/$15, balanced everyday model. Luna: $1/$6, fastest tier. Sol sets a new Agents’ Last Exam high of 53.6 (vs Fable 5’s 40.5) and hits 88.8–91.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1; Terra at 84.3% ties Fable 5 on that bench; Luna at 82.5% beats last-gen Opus 4.8 (78.9%) at its price. OpenAI · Engadget · Neowin

  • model-releases Sol on Cerebras WSE-3 chips hits 750 tokens/sec — roughly 10x faster than Nvidia GPU deployments of a frontier model in production. OpenAI is limiting Cerebras access to select customers while scaling out. BigGo Finance · Crypto Briefing

  • model-releases GPT-5.6 is 54% more token efficient than GPT-5.5 on agentic coding tasks (per Altman on CNBC). New prompt caching with explicit cache breakpoints and 30-min minimum cache life. CNBC

People

  • sama told Bloomberg and CNBC that OpenAI made “many changes” to GPT-5.6 during a “collaborative back and forth” with Commerce Secretary Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Bessent, and National Cyber Director Cairncross — Sol’s capabilities in coding, biology, and cybersecurity drew the most scrutiny. In a separate FT op-ed he called for a US-led international forum to set binding AI safety standards. Bloomberg · Fortune

  • simonw published a breakdown of the full GPT-5.6 family (Luna, Terra, Sol) on his blog July 9, noting the three-tier pricing structure and the new explicit cache breakpoints feature. simonwillison.net

Tools & dev

  • agentic-ai ChatGPT Work launched July 9 (Pro, Enterprise, Edu; Plus and Business in days): powered by GPT-5.6, runs complex multi-step tasks for hours across web, desktop, and mobile, builds docs/spreadsheets/presentations/web apps, and ships with a hosted websites feature so users can publish directly from ChatGPT. Bloomberg · MacRumors

OSS

  • addyosmani/agent-skills — 75.9k stars (+2,554 today). 24 production-grade engineering skills for coding agents (slash commands: /spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review, /ship and more), works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Copilot, and 70+ other agents. v0.6.3 released July 3. GitHub

  • MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search — 19k stars (+3,716 today). AI-powered job application framework built on Claude Code. GitHub

  • bradautomates/claude-video — 6.7k stars (+718 today). Enables Claude to watch videos by downloading, extracting frames, and transcribing; a simple MCP wrapper. GitHub