When it was teased this morning, I didn’t expect GPT-5.5 to actually ship today. Sounds like it’s a very good, efficient model:
Across these domains, GPT‑5.5 is not just more intelligent; it is more efficient in how it works through problems, often reaching higher-quality outputs with fewer tokens and fewer retries. On Artificial Analysis’s Coding Index, GPT‑5.5 delivers state-of-the-art intelligence at half the cost of competitive frontier coding models.
And from Sam Altman, posting on the social network that just won’t go away despite how much we’d like it to:
We believe in democratization. We want people to be able to use lots of AI; we aim to have the most efficient models, the most efficient inference stack, and the most compute. We want our users to have access to the best technology and for everyone to have equal opportunity.
Sora also officially shuts down in a few days, freeing up those resources.
