My bet is that OpenRouter began steering GPT-5.6-sol users towards flex tier, which is already 50% off.
So this isn’t really a price cut. As to why, lots of possible reasons. Perhaps an agreement with OpenAI to help them drive up more diverse traffic priorities.
CSAM, and other harms, are typically detected using a set of specially trained, faster and cheaper models (and out of band matching techniques) that run before and after the main model.
Any mention in the system prompt is mostly defense in depth, and to make refusals more graceful.
Also, the system prompt, or even something reinforced on every message, is nowhere near as strong as its internal training or as an external safeguard.
If the prompt were the only protection, it would be extremely easy to produce illegal content after a long session.
Is it really that unusual? When you attach an image or a video, it gets converted to tokens you don’t see, at a rate that is proprietary to the model. You pay for those tokens, but don’t see them. Even how text is converted to tokens is a property of the dictionary, which is opaque for proprietary models.
There are features of input and output that are opaque to you, but that you pay for. Part of how model providers chose to run their service.
Kepler’s laws should still provide a pretty good estimate, at least until black holes get much closer. I did a quick back of the envelope calculation, and looks like they’ll be roughly 14k astronomical units, or 0.22 light years apart.
1604. One could say we are overdue. I’m not sure about dust or other obstacles blocking it, but based on brightness alone a supernova in our galaxy should be visible with naked eye.
1604? Sort of; SN 1987A was visible to the naked eye at 3rd magnitude. It was in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is almost in our galaxy but not quite. 170k light years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A
It would be. Which is why any pair of orbiting bodies will eventually collide.
It’s just that for black holes this effect is insignificant (a merger would take much longer than the age of the Universe) until they get close to each other, much closer than 1 parsec.
The potential to detect Supermassive Black Hole mergers is one of the reasons I'm really excited about the LISA project [1], and hope it actually gets funded and doesn't delay too much.
In quantum mechanics, bosons are (often massless) force carrying particles like photons or gluons. Fermions are the massive matter particles, such as electrons or quarks.
So, while I’ve never heard this saying before, I assume it’s meaning is that massless particles like photons are best for carrying information around (rather than electrons we are using in circuits today), while the electrons are best for carrying state, like in a switch.
Note, that in networking we have already made that transition by using fiber optics, rather than electric wire to transfer information over longer distances.
I wonder what the longest information carrying electric wire is? They used to cross oceans, but not anymore. There are loads of DSL twisted pairs and co-ax cables in the "last mile" that maybe go 5km max. In rural areas maybe up to 50km with repeaters?
Is there something in between? Some old buried copper trunk cable between two university campuses or something like that?
So this isn’t really a price cut. As to why, lots of possible reasons. Perhaps an agreement with OpenAI to help them drive up more diverse traffic priorities.