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GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

blog.roboflow.com published 2026-07-16

GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading VLMs.

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