OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra halves the price of computer use; Google TPUs head to Oracle's cloud
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · 10 min
OpenAI's new mid-tier Terra model goes after agent workloads on price, Oracle adds Google TPUs and Vera Rubin capacity, AMD joins Nvidia in buying into Meta's stock sale, and Anthropic publishes its own refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis.
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OpenAI's new mid-tier Terra model goes after agent workloads on price, Oracle adds Google TPUs and Vera Rubin capacity, AMD joins Nvidia in buying into Meta's stock sale, and Anthropic publishes its own refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis.
In this episode
- Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra | OpenAI — OpenAI
“Its standard API prices are 50% lower than those of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol, making it practical for developers to automate high-volume work, like reading incoming invoices and entering their details into accounting software.”
- Nvidia and Oracle expand Vera Rubin cloud infrastructure, pitching better utilization as enterprises report idle GPUs | VentureBeat — Carl Franzen
“Nvidia and Oracle are expanding their AI infrastructure partnership with the general availability of Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and standalone Vera CPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, alongside plans to expand their Superclusters to multi-gigawatt scale.”
- AMD to Invest $1 Billion in Meta, Which Could Get 160 Million AMD Shares — Stock Titan
“Meta can earn up to 160 million AMD shares, about $85 billion at Monday’s close by our count, if it buys AMD chips drawing six gigawatts and AMD stock reaches agreed levels up to $600.”
- AI News Briefing — October 28: OpenAI and Anthropic models disprove the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Google unveils Genie 4 | Ai — Ai
“Anthropic describes the result as purely asymptotic, about how running time grows as the number of variables increases. Williams told TechCrunch that he asked OpenAI whether the result affects cryptographic systems, and that OpenAI had checked and was reasonably confident it…”