Okay ? Don't use frontier intelligence then.
Use 6 month old frontier intelligence .
If you aren't getting an ROI on your frontier AI then you aren't using it for the correct things or solving economically valuable problems. If that's the case then just wait 6 months to solve those problems lol
So now OpenAI’s plan is becoming much clearer:
→ A model stronger than Opus 5.5: GPT-6.1 Astra
→ A bot meant to compete with, or surpass, Grok Bot: Aeon
→ A new $500–$1,000 tier capable of actually sustaining all of this without burning through the weekly quota in 10 minutes
If all of these pieces really come together, then we can probably see where OpenAI is heading.
And honestly, I’m not sure I’m happy about it.
At those prices, this kind of frontier intelligence stops being something broadly accessible and becomes a product for maybe 1% of the global population.
That’s the part that worries me.