OpenAI Rolls Out Budget-Priced Mid-Tier GPT-6.1 Terra

OpenAI just dropped its budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra model. It is not a complete bombshell. But it rivals pricier models on some tasks. And here is the real kicker. It costs just one tenth of Astra's API price. Meanwhile, Anthropic insists humanity cannot afford not to spend eight hundred billion dollars on AI. They claim it matters more than chips and the net. Except greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically at Microsoft since they promised to become carbon negative by twenty thirty. Now shareholders want a vote on their emissions.