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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol; Google's Gemini 4 Argon remains gated

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OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, pricing it at $2/$10 and making it available for use. Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, but access to this model is currently restricted. The AI briefing also noted Perplexity's Photon model reducing retrieval latency and Perplexity and turbopuffer releasing a new contextual embedding model for RAG. AI

IMPACT New model releases from major labs indicate continued rapid development in AI capabilities and pricing strategies.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol; Google's Gemini 4 Argon remains gated

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Latent — Gemini 4 Argon is gated; GPT-6.1 Sol is $2/$10 and live • OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth of Astra's price • Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, b

    📰 Latent — Gemini 4 Argon is gated; GPT-6.1 Sol is $2/$10 and live • OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth of Astra's price • Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, but you can't use it yet • Perplexity's Photon cuts p99 retrieval latency from 800 ms to 65 ms • Perplexity and turbopuff…

    LINKS latent.steenbergen.ai/…/2026-10-01 latent.steenbergen.ai/archive

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