OpenAI Fires Safety Researchers; GPT-6.1 Ultrafast Launch
This AINews newsletter covers several significant developments: OpenAI has fired three safety researchers linked to a METR audit, citing mishandling of confidential information. OpenAI also launched GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast, a faster and cheaper model, and introduced an intelligent UI for ChatGPT. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 and cut Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices. Additionally, Arena raised $200M, and there are reports about OpenAI's revenue figures. The newsletter also includes various model launches, benchmarks, and safety research updates.
- •OpenAI fired three safety researchers: Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang.
- •OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast at $12/$60 per million input/output tokens.
- •Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 with a 1M context window and 128K max output.
