Open models beat GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval at 100x lower cost

A blog post claims open models beat GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with a 100x cheaper price/efficiency trade-off, positioning open weights as a cost-effective alternative to frontier APIs.
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