A smaller, efficient OpenAI model whose price was cut by 80% after efficiency work. It would have been frontier six months ago and is now offered free in some modes.
Luna
by OpenAI
Smaller, efficient OpenAI model reportedly cut in price by 80% after efficiency work; details are limited.
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Luna at a glance
- What is Luna?
- Luna is a model from OpenAI. Smaller, efficient OpenAI model reportedly cut in price by 80% after efficiency work; details are limited.
- Who makes Luna?
- Luna is made by OpenAI.
- Does Luna work in the EU?
- Unverified. No explicit evidence found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Luna cost?
- Pricing unknown. Creator reports an 80% price cut and free access in some modes; no official pricing confirmed. Licence: Proprietary.
- Where was Luna shown?
- In 2 creator videos by Matthew Berman, AI Search. Most recently by Matthew Berman on 24 Aug 2026, at 26:41 in “How to Understand the Next Wave of AI Before Everyone Else | Tibo Interview”.
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Luna is described as a smaller, efficient model from OpenAI. According to a creator interview (Matthew Berman, with Tibo), its price was cut by about 80% after efficiency improvements, and it is positioned as a model that would have been considered frontier-level roughly six months earlier.
The same source says it is offered free in some modes. No official page, documentation, model card or pricing page could be retrieved, so its exact capabilities, context window, modalities, access routes and release date are not confirmed here.
Treat the entries below as provisional until OpenAI publishes official details.
- Smaller, efficiency-focused OpenAI model
- Reported 80% price reduction after efficiency work
- Reportedly free in some modes
- Described as comparable to frontier capability from about six months earlier
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Animates realistic 3D human avatars from a few images and a driving signal (video, skeleton or line art) using Gaussian deformations, without a body model. No code or models released.
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