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The GPT-5.6 family is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with the Sol variant achieving a 73% score on the DeepSWE leaderboard. Sam Altman stated that Sol is half the price and twice as token-efficient as the previous Fable model.
The speech-to-speech model achieved 82.9% on the Speech-to-Speech Quality Index and 56.5% on Tau Voice for agentic performance. It features a 0.70s time-to-first-audio and is now available on Agent Builder via the xAI Console.
The model solved the 1973 math problem in under one hour using 64 parallel subagents. This marks a rare instance of a public-facing model achieving a significant mathematical breakthrough.
Announced at GPT-5.6's Thursday launch, the model will power Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork, with Nadella adding it reaches GitHub and Foundry today. The move follows Bloomberg reporting that Microsoft was replacing some OpenAI software with in-house MAI models to cut costs.
British AI neocloud Nscale agreed to acquire Anyscale, maker of AI workload-scaling software, for $1.65 billion. The deal tests whether Anyscale's cloud-neutral software can stay neutral once paired with Nscale's GPU infrastructure.
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