OpenAI describes a new 'ultra' reasoning setting beyond 'max' that runs four agents in parallel by default, using more tokens to get stronger, faster results on hard tasks. ✦ AI generated
OpenAI · Latent Space · 2026-07-10 · original ↗
max gives GPT‑5.6 even more time than xhigh to reason and explore alternatives, run checks, and revise its approach. ultra goes further by coordinating four agents in parallel by default, trading higher token use for stronger results and faster time-to-result on demanding tasks.
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