OpenAI simply introduced its new GPT-5.5 mannequin, which the corporate calls its “smartest and most intuitive to make use of mannequin but, and the subsequent step towards a brand new approach of getting work executed on a pc.” OpenAI simply launched GPT-5.4 final month, however says that the brand new GPT-5.5 “excels” at duties like writing and debugging code, doing analysis on-line, making spreadsheets and paperwork, and doing that work throughout totally different instruments.
“As a substitute of fastidiously managing each step, you may give GPT-5.5 a messy, multi-part process and belief it to plan, use instruments, examine its work, navigate via ambiguity, and preserve going,” in accordance with OpenAI. The corporate additionally notes that GPT-5.5 may have its “strongest set of safeguards up to now” and may use “considerably fewer” tokens to finish duties in Codex.
GPT-5.5 will roll out beginning Thursday to Plus, Professional, Enterprise, and Enterprise ChatGPT tiers and Codex, with GPT-5.5 Professional coming to Professional, Enterprise, and Enterprise customers.
The brand new mannequin is the most recent step in an more and more heated battle between OpenAI and Anthropic as the businesses race to doubtlessly go public later this 12 months. Anthropic not too long ago launched Claude Opus 4.7 and in addition introduced Mythos Preview, a private mannequin it says is uniquely superior in cybersecurity. OpenAI rapidly adopted with GPT-5.4-Cyber, its personal mannequin skilled to flag cybersecurity vulnerabilities. And each corporations are competing to nook the market on AI coding and enterprise instruments, with OpenAI not too long ago slashing so-called “facet quests” in favor of chasing greater income drivers.
GPT-5.5’s launch additionally comes days earlier than the high-profile trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Proceedings are set to start on Monday in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California.