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BigGo Finance reports that OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark would be retired roughly seven months after its February 12, 2026 launch, with Codex head Thibault Sottiaux announcing the decision on X. The model had debuted at over 1,000 tokens per second on Cerebras' WSE-3 wafer-scale chips and was framed as OpenAI's The article attributes the retirement to declining usage and the availability of clearly superior models, and cites Cerebras' August introduction of an Ultrafast mode running the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 tokens per second as eliminating Spark's core differentiator. It also notes a broader pattern of OpenAI retiring
