It could benefit startups, research teams, and individual developers who previously found higher-tier model access cost-prohibitive.

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model offered nearly the same performance at one-quarter of the cost, while Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 models delivered better coding performance at a similar price. Today, OpenAI ...

The company is signaling that the future of reasoning AI will be both powerful and, in a meaningful way, open to all.