OpenAI 28-Day Sprint Day 7: Sol’s Default Context Window Expands to 500,000 Tokens, Subscribers No Longer Charged Extra for Long Context

Beating AI News Brief: OpenAI Product and Platform Lead Thibault Sottiaux has announced Day 7 of the company’s 28-day product sprint. GPT-6.1 Sol’s default context window in Codex and ChatGPT Work has been expanded from 272,000 tokens to 500,000 tokens, an approximately 80% increase. The larger window reduces instances of automatic context compression during long tasks, enabling the model to retain more details from prior conversations and task inputs. Sottiaux noted the new default setting was

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