GitHub is offering GPT-5.6 Sol at 30% off inside Copilot for Pro+ and Max subscribers. The promo ends September 13, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, cutting short-window Sol usage cost for heavy coding-agent users.
OpenAI Codex lead Tibo (@thsottiaux) pushes back on burn-rate concerns: at roughly equivalent output, GPT-6 Astra is about ~50% cheaper per task than Sol. Paired with his earlier calibration that Astra on low already beats Sol on high, developers can dial effort down for cost control.
Sourcegraph co-founder Quinn Slack (@sqs) announced Amp is free when you bring your own compute and model subscriptions/keys (BYOK)โno more BYOK limits or fees. The Free Agent / Hobby tier covers full product features; use ChatGPT or other subs / your own keys for inference. Pay for remote orbs as needed, or run agents on your own runners for free.
Abacus AI CEO @bindureddy announced open-weights Smaug Flash, a personal-agent fine-tune on RouteLLM API at about $0.10/M input and $0.40/M outputโclaiming DeepSeek Flash-level performance at roughly 4x lower price, with weights on Hugging Face.
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