GPT-5, mentioned 224 times across podcast episodes and expert conversations analyzed by Sonic.
The recently released Grok 4.6 model from SpaceX AI has benchmark performance comparable to GPT-5.6 and Fable-5 at a fraction of the cost.
OpenAI is now providing free users with unlimited chats as part of a service overhaul for the GPT-5.6 model family.
The automatic model routing feature in a model referred to as "GPT-5" was a source of frustration for super users and frequent users.