The setting remains configurable up to 1M, and the forum post says subscription usage incurs no long-context fees. The post's author calls the default change an anti-feature, arguing that a larger context may exhaust quota faster and make needle-in-a-haystack retrieval less reliable; that is user commentary, not an OpenAI evaluation. Source: https://community.openai.com/t/28-days-of-shipping-at-openai/1403897/15
Raw SignalOct 12, 20261 min read1 source
28 days of Shipping at OpenAI - #15 by sam.saffron - Codex
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OpenAI raised the default context length for GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex and Work from 272K to 500K tokens.