GPT 5.5 Just Dropped. OpenAI Accelerated The AI Race (Again).

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Thanks to @HPInc & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs OpenAI’s flagship AI model GPT-5.5 is here. It’s smarter, faster, cheaper, better at long-running tasks and…oh boy, everything just changed again. This week on AI For Humans, OpenAI dropped state-of-the-art GPT-5.5 and it's not just another model release, it's the start of a much faster iterative rollout. Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki both said to expect significantly more releases going forward, admitting the last few years have been surprisingly slow. It may not be Anthropic Mythos numbers but it’s actually here. We walk through the benchmarks, the viral OpenAI dev video about being able to be lazy and letting the model figure things out, and incredible projects people built in the first 24 hours: a full toy railway simulation, Sebastien Bubeck's Unicorn Test, a UFO tank game, and Gavin's Animal Game spun up in 30 minutes. Plus, Codex got a bunch of new features including browser use and docs. OpenAI shared agents in ChatGPT. More ChatGPT Images 2.0 examples keep dropping. I mean… it’s a LOT. GPT-5.5 IS HERE. THE AI RACE JUST GOT FASTER. VROOM VROOM. #ai #ainews #openai Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ Thanks again to our sponsors #hp & #intel // Timecodes // 00:00 GPT-5.5 Is Here 05:38 GPT-5.5 Benchmarks Good But Not Better Than Mythos 09:14 Iterative Development From OpenAI & Sam Altman 11:25 New Features in OpenAI Codex 14:05 HP & Intel Ad (Thank you to our Sponsor) 16:16 GPT-5.5 Examples: Toy Railway, Unicorn Test, UFO Tank Game 19:45 Gavin's 64 Animal Game in 30 Minutes 25:52 GPT Image Gen 2 Where's Waldo Prompt Works Great 27:55 Gavin's Family ChatGPT Images 2.0 Prank // Show Links // GPT-5.5 Official Announcement From OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ Sam Altman's GPT-5.5 Launch Tweet https://x.com/sama/status/2047378254575685707?s=20 OpenAI Dev Video: Being Lazy With GPT-5.5 https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2047377079352877534?s=20 Codex Gets a Bunch of New Features https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2047387017974337611?s=20 Codex Update Video From OpenAI Devs https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2047381283358355706?s=20 Shared Agents Announced in ChatGPT https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2047008987665809771?s=20 GPT-5.5 vs 5.4 Toy Railway Comparison https://x.com/petergostev/status/2047376725106131014?s=20 Sebastien Bubeck's Unicorn Test https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2047383628922167390?s=20 UFO Tank Game Built With GPT-5.5 https://x.com/intheworldofai/status/2047383340483821798?s=20 Where's Waldo Prompt Test https://x.com/JeffLadish/status/2046839551403176251?s=20 Gavin's NFL Draft ChatGPT Images 2.0 Test https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2047203603757367426?s=20