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title: "OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra for visual reasoning, computer use, and writing"
description: "From the The Forward Pass daily issue, October 27, 2026."
canonical: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-27/openai-launches-gpt-6-1-terra-for-visual-reasoning-computer-use-and-writing
updated: 2026-10-27
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# OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra for visual reasoning, computer use, and writing

From The Forward Pass daily issue, October 27, 2026 (https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-27). Source: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-27/openai-launches-gpt-6-1-terra-for-visual-reasoning-computer-use-and-writing

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GPT-6.1 Terra is OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 release for visual reasoning, precise computer use, and natural writing. If those are the tasks in your application, the release gives you a model to select through the Responses API or Chat Completions API.

Here's what you can use:
- OpenAI positions Terra as a fast, efficient model across its stated visual, computer-use, and writing tasks.
- The API model ID is `gpt-6.1-terra`, used to select this release in your requests.
- OpenAI points to the GPT-6 guide for prompting and migration guidance when working with the model.

Try it: Select `gpt-6.1-terra` with the Responses API or Chat Completions API, and consult the GPT-6 guide for prompting and migration. Also available via Vercel, Amazon Web Services, Databricks, LiteLLM

Sources: [developers.openai.com](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) · [openai.com](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra)