Openai Releases Gpt-5.5, Bringing Company One Step Closer To An Ai ‘superapp’

OpenAI connected Thursday released GPT-5.5, its newest AI model, which nan institution calls its “smartest and astir intuitive to usage model” yet. The algorithm comes pinch accrued capabilities successful a multitude of areas, pinch OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman claiming that it besides brings nan institution 1 measurement person to nan creation of OpenAI’s “superapp.”

On a telephone pinch journalists, Brockman said that nan caller exemplary was a large advancement “towards much agentic and intuitive computing.”

“This exemplary is simply a existent measurement guardant towards nan benignant of computing that we expect successful nan early — but it is 1 step, and we expect to spot galore successful nan future,” Brockman said. “It’s a faster, sharper philosopher for less tokens compared to thing for illustration 5.4. So this intends that there’s conscionable much frontier AI disposable for businesses and for consumers, which is portion of our goal.”

Brockman besides said that nan exemplary was an further measurement toward creating a “superapp” — a multi-purpose, Swiss Army weapon of a programme — which Brockman and co-founder Sam Altman person antecedently discussed launching. The co-founders envision combining ChatGPT, Codex, and AI browser into 1 unified work that tin assistance endeavor customers. Notably, nan “superapp” conception is also a basking topic pinch Altman rival (and erstwhile OpenAI colleague) Elon Musk, who has said he wants to move X (formerly Twitter) into its ain alleged superapp.

OpenAI released its past model only past month, pinch a erstwhile merchandise successful December and, earlier that, November. The institution has continued to churn retired caller models astatine a crisp pace, a inclination that institution unit said should beryllium expected to proceed for nan foreseeable future. “We spot beautiful important improvements successful nan short term, highly important improvements successful nan mean term,” said Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s main scientist. “In fact, I would say, like, I deliberation nan past 2 years person been amazingly slow.”

According to OpenAI, GPT-5.5 is designed to beryllium useful crossed a wide array of categories, including foundational endeavor areas for illustration agentic coding and knowledge work, but besides successful much experimental AI applications for illustration mathematics and technological research. The institution besides released information Thursday showing nan model’s superior capacity crossed a scope of benchmarks. Compared to its erstwhile models, and to models from competitors Google and Anthropic (like Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 4.5), 5.5 consistently scores higher, according to OpenAI.

OpenAI’s rivalry pinch Anthropic is ne'er acold from discussion, and GPT-5.5 offered different opportunity for nan 2 companies to comparison themselves to 1 another. One newsman during nan property briefing asked if GPT 5.5. would person capabilities akin to Mythos, nan cybersecurity instrumentality precocious announced by Anthropic. (Mythos has knowledgeable contention successful caller days owed to a study of unauthorized entree to nan program.) Mia Glaese, a personnel of OpenAI’s method staff, said that GPT-5.5 would person a important effect connected nan company’s attack to deploying its models towards integer defense. “We person a beardown and agelong opinionated strategy for our attack to cyber, and we’ve refined a durable attack to rolling retired models safely,” Glaese said.

Mark Chen, main investigation serviceman astatine OpenAI, said that GPT-5.5 was amended astatine navigating machine activity than its predecessors, and besides said that nan exemplary “shows meaningful gains connected technological and method investigation workflows,” noting that nan institution consciousness it could really “help master scientists make progress.” Chen besides said it could assistance pinch supplier discovery, an area that has shown increased manufacture interest complete nan past fewer years.

GPT 5.5. is wide disposable starting Thursday, according to OpenAI. The institution says that nan exemplary is deploying to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users successful ChatGPT, while 5.5 Pro is headed to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.