[AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization

OpenAI recently published findings on enhancements in GPT-5.6, focusing on inference acceleration and reducing serving costs by 20%. The improvements included using GPT-5.6 to analyze production traffic and optimize load balancing, alongside enhancements in speculative decoding that increased token-generation efficiency by 15%. These advancements reflect a growing trend toward decreasing AI costs, which could significantly influence how companies leverage AI in the future.