OpenAI Reportedly Releasing Far Smarter and Expensive Internal AI Tomorrow

OpenAI may unveil advanced AI models as soon as Friday, November 6, 2026, according to a report by The Information. This potential release includes enhanced versions of Astra and Sol models, following the emergence of an undisclosed internal model that has demonstrated remarkable superiority over GPT-6 Astra in engineering tests.

A separate announcement on social media platform X asserts that this undisclosed internal model will be officially launched on Friday, promising significant performance enhancements over both GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol. Although OpenAI has not officially confirmed this claim, benchmark results from November 3 reveal that the internal model significantly outperforms GPT-6 Astra, scoring an impressive 87.5% on BenchCAD 2.0, compared to the latter's 59.4% at its peak reasoning level.

BenchCAD 2.0 assesses AI proficiency in engineering tasks including 3D models, assemblies, and circuit boards. An X user, @deredleritt3r, provided a detailed comparison of the models' performance and estimated pricing for different reasoning settings. The findings indicate that even the lower estimated setting of the internal model achieves approximately 76% on the benchmark tasks, which is notably higher than the maximum score of 59% achieved by Astra's highest setting.

The internal model's cost per task is approximately $11, whereas Astra's costs range from $0.44 for its lowest setting to $11.05 for its maximum setting. The user also noted that the internal model's pricing estimates were derived from OpenAI's benchmark graph and that the reasoning setting labels are estimations. While these figures establish the internal model's superior performance, they do not guarantee its superiority across all types of tasks.

Additionally, although the X post suggests that the upcoming Sol model will benefit from training techniques employed for the internal model, OpenAI has not yet confirmed the specifics of the Sol model's training or released benchmark comparisons between the two models. OpenAI's potential release of new Astra, Sol, and cybersecurity-focused AI models on Friday remains unconfirmed, and the company has not disclosed the new models' official names, pricing, or availability.