{
  "id": 16665844,
  "title": "GPT-6.1 Terra makes a strong case for being OpenAI’s best bang for your AI buck",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/gpt-6-1-terra-makes-a-strong-case-for-being-openais-best-bang-for",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-26T21:25:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Android Authority",
    "slug": "android-authority",
    "url": "https://www.androidauthority.com/gpt-6-1-terra-3728234/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenAI has unveiled its newest AI model, GPT-6.1 Terra, heralding a new era of impressive cost-performance balance. While Astra continues to lead in terms of performance, Terra offers output quality that's comparable, yet significantly more affordable. Remarkably, this model achieves almost identical performance to GPT-6.1 Sol, but at approximately half the price.\n\nThe rapid pace of advancement in AI technologies is unfathomable, with \"bigger and better\" no longer enough. Instead, we're now more focused on the efficiency gains, like matching the performance of another model at a fraction of the cost. This sentiment encapsulates the spirit of OpenAI's latest release.\n\nIt's been nearly a month since the debut of GPT-6.1 Sol, and today, OpenAI has introduced its successor, GPT-6.1 Terra. This follows the launch of GPT-5.6 Terra this past summer, and the new model promises substantial improvements in both performance and efficiency.",
  "summary": "OpenAI's latest model promises big savings without compromising on performance",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting \"fast and capable computer use at scale\" and clearer, more natural writing, priced at $1/1M input and $5/1M output tokens (OpenAI)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/openai-releases-gpt-6-1-terra-touting-fast-and-capable-computer-use",
        "published": "2026-10-26T18:20:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "9to5Mac",
        "title": "OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT and Codex with new GPT-6.1 Terra model",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/openai-upgrades-chatgpt-and-codex-with-new-gpt-6-1-terra-model",
        "published": "2026-10-26T18:21:40.000Z"
      }
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}