I Tested GPT‑5.6 Sol for a Month
Categories: Startup, Product, AI
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Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, spent a month testing OpenAI’s GPT‑5.6 Sol. It is fast, powerful, relatively inexpensive and an excellent writer. Dan breaks down how GPT‑5.6 performs across coding, writi
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it's model release day. And I'm wearing sunglasses because it is the release of GPT 5.6 Soul. Soul? It's a good model. Wow, it's bright. So, put on your sunglasses, get your suntan lotion, and get ready for the vibe check. We've been testing it for about a month now internally at Every with a pause in between because of the federal government. Thank you, Howard Lutnick. But, we got it back. Thank you again, Howard. Today Soul is coming out in the new ChatGPT desktop app, which is basically a merge of the ChatGPT desktop app and the Codex desktop app. Now, they're one app. And you can see it's ChatGPT work and then ChatGPT Codex. And as far as I can tell, these are basically the same thing. On the work side, it just hides the code from you. And on the Codex side, it like looks a little bit …