AI is getting better at doing real science while becoming dramatically cheaper. GPT-6 Astra takes #1 in scientific research, beating Claude Sonnet 5.5 while using 22× fewer tokens. GPT-6.1 Sol also beats Sonnet at nearly 1/10th the cost. Scientific research is starting to scale w

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New benchmarks suggest OpenAI's next-gen models, Astra and Sol, are dominating scientific research tasks while obliterating previous token costs. If these metrics hold, we are moving from basic chat interfaces to highly efficient silicon researchers that scale linearly with compute. Use-cases for automated R&D just got a massive projected discount.