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GPT-5.6 Sol just got better in one place and stayed the same everywhere else

Teams testing prompts in ChatGPT before moving them to Codex or Work may notice the difference on longer tasks. OpenAI The post GPT-5.6 Sol just got better in one place and stayed the same everywhere else appeared first on The New Stack .

GPT-5.6 Sol just got better in one place and stayed the same everywhere else

OpenAI has unveiled an update to GPT-5.6 Sol, which affects the consumer version of ChatGPT but leaves the versions used by Codex and ChatGPT Work unchanged. This optimization is geared towards everyday chats, and its impact can only be observed by testing prompts within the ChatGPT environment. The update aims to improve accuracy in financial, medical, and legal contexts, with errors being 68% less common than those produced by GPT-5.5 Instant.

It's crucial to note that OpenAI has not provided detailed benchmarks or prompts to replicate these results, making it difficult to ascertain the extent of Sol's improvement.

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