{"version":"1.0.0","updatedDate":"2026-10-13","canonical":"https://inquory.com/blog/news/ai-daily-news-2026-09-30","provenance":"Inquory source-based analysis and explicitly labelled synthetic calculations/reference-policy cases. No vendor runtime, account, biology or customer test.","id":"archive","path":"/news/ai-daily-news-2026-09-30","heading":"Archive comparison: model capability, task cost and delegated access","contribution":"An original cross-announcement comparison that separates three different adoption decisions and directs each to a concrete evaluation resource.","method":"Reopen the three primary announcements and classify their decision units. Preserve the September 30 edition as dated reporting; the October 13 analysis does not change the original event or publication dates.","paragraphs":["These announcements are not three interchangeable ways to improve the same task. A model revision raises a capability question. A cost-per-task claim raises an outcome-normalization question. An ongoing agent product raises an authority and persistence question. Comparing all three through one vendor benchmark obscures those differences.","Evaluate capability using a fixed input set and scoring rubric; evaluate cost using completed usable tasks plus repair time; evaluate delegation using the exact origins, data and write actions the task requires. The new local summary scorer, pilot workbook and browser-boundary cases provide distinct reusable starting points. None establishes a winner or account availability."],"headers":["September announcement","Decision unit","Appropriate owned evaluation","Not established by the announcement"],"rows":[["GPT-6.1 Sol","Task capability on a defined input","Required-fact rubric and retained outputs","Accuracy on the reader's actual task"],["Claude Sonnet 5.5","Cost and time per usable completed task","Pilot baseline, repair time and missing-data ledger","Cheaper token price or guaranteed task saving"],["dots","Delegated origins, persistence and actions","Action-boundary case set and scope log","Permission to mutate every connected system"]],"limits":"A dated source comparison, not a new comprehensive news feed or head-to-head product benchmark. Availability, plan and account terms remain provider-specific and mutable. Links to reusable methods do not prove that the products have been tested.","sources":[{"label":"GPT-6.1 Sol announcement, reopened October 13","href":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/"},{"label":"Sonnet 5.5 announcement, reopened October 13","href":"https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5"},{"label":"dots announcement, reopened October 13","href":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/"}],"related":{"label":"Use the local summary evaluation tool and original case set","href":"/guides/evaluate-ai-job-note-summaries"}}