OpenAI: Active Users Exceed 1 Billion, Will Reduce AI Costs Through Full-Stack Development

BlockBeats News, July 31st. OpenAI announced that the value of AI infrastructure lies not in scale itself, but in providing more powerful intelligence to more users at a lower cost. The company is building a complete system covering infrastructure, models, platforms, and products to drive adoption through stronger models, supported by revenue, real feedback, and demand data for next-generation research and infrastructure investment.

OpenAI yesterday reduced the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%, with input and output prices decreasing to $0.20 and $1.20 per million Tokens respectively; GPT-5.6 Terra saw a 20% price reduction to $2 and $12. The Fast mode of GPT-5.6 Sol can increase processing speed by up to 2.5 times without changing the intelligence level, priced at twice the standard mode.

The company stated that GPT-5.6 Sol has helped optimize model production services software, reducing end-to-end service costs by 20% and improving inference decoding efficiency by over 15%. Currently, OpenAI's models reach over 1 billion active users and 2 million businesses. The goal is not just to build more computing power or larger models, but to deploy the right capacity based on trusted demand, making useful intelligence stronger, cheaper, and more widely accessible to users.