@OpenAI: After deployment, we applied GPT-5.6 Sol to advance the frontier of efficiency by making itself more efficient to run. …
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OpenAI deployed GPT-5.6 Sol, achieving 20% lower serving costs and 15%+ better token-generation efficiency through improved GPU kernels and speculative decoding.
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After deployment, we applied GPT-5.6 Sol to advance the frontier of efficiency by making itself more efficient to run.
The results:
- 20% lower serving costs from production GPU kernel improvements.
- 15%+ better token-generation efficiency from improved speculative decoding.
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