Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Today, we’re sharing an early look at Ultrafast, a new service tier that runs GPT‑5.6 Sol up to 14× faster than Standard processing, launching first in the OpenAI API. Powered by Cerebras, Ultrafast generates up to 750 output tokens per second, bringing our most intelligent model at the time of this announcement to products and workflows where every second matters.

With GPT‑5.6, we’re pushing the frontier on what our models can do and making them more efficient across every layer of our stack. Those improvements have made advanced intelligence more affordable and more useful to more people. Until now, getting real-time speed typically meant choosing a smaller or more specialized model. Ultrafast points to progress in a new direction: more useful work per second.

When speed no longer requires giving up intelligence, AI can move into the most time-sensitive parts of a business and new kinds of work become possible. We’ve already seen some encouraging scenarios for Ultrafast:

• Incident response and reliability: When a critical system fails, analyze application logs, recent code changes, and engineer reports to identify the likely cause and help prepare a fix while the outage is still unfolding.

• Financial research and security: Analyze market signals, assess transactions, and identify suspicious activity while conditions are still changing.

• Customer support and voice: Resolve complex customer issues in real time without interrupting the conversation, even when finding the answer requires multiple steps or systems.

• Commerce: Answer product questions, check inventory, personalize recommendations, and resolve checkout issues while the shopper is still deciding, before hesitation becomes an abandoned cart.

• Live research and experimentation: Turn research that previously took an overnight run into an interactive working session, letting teams test an idea, examine the results, adjust their approach, and run another experiment without breaking their flow.

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