This was the week of GPT-5.5.
OpenAI on Twitter / X
GPT-5 is here.Rolling out to everyone starting today.https://t.co/rOcZ8J2btI pic.twitter.com/dk6zLTe04s— OpenAI (@OpenAI) August 7, 2025
GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition
More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.
GPT 5.5: The System Card
Last week, OpenAI announced GPT-5.5, including GPT-5.5-Pro.
Gagan Ghotra on Twitter / X
I'm excited about Google I/O 2025 because an internal slide (Sep 2024) made public by DOJ (on 26 Apr 2025) shows Googe I/O 2025 point and says "Bring Google's personal Al to Chrome desktop w/ Gemini Live".Slide via DOJ https://t.co/erOPhr6maF pic.twitter.com/R7URnse66J— Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_) May 13, 2025
White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6
We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good.
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stack.
GPT is the Heroku of AI - Ken Kantzer's Blog
I read a comment on HN that sparked this article: GPT is kind of like DevOps from the early 2000s. Here’s the hot take: I don’t see the primary value of GPT being in its ability to help me develop novel use cases or features – at least not right now. The primary value is […]
Model Release Notes | OpenAI Help Center
We’re beginning the rollout of GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, our flagship reasoning model for complex work across coding, research, science, cybersecurity, computer use, and design.GPT-5.6 Sol is rolling out to eligible paid ChatGPT plans. Free, Go, and logged-out users are not included. Availability may vary during rollout, and managed-workspace access can depend on administrator settings. Availability for other GPT-5.6 family models varies by product and plan; check the model picker or current rate card in the product you use.
AI #158: The Department of War
This was the worst week I have had in quite a while, maybe ever.
Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5
AI models like GPT-5 are an increasingly valuable tool for scientists, but many remain unaware of the capabilities of frontier AI. We present a collection of short case studies in which GPT-5 produced new, concrete steps in ongoing research across mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, biology, and materials science. In these examples, the authors highlight how AI accelerated their work, and where it fell short; where expert time was saved, and where human input was still key. We document the interactions of the human authors with GPT-5, as guiding examples of fruitful collaboration with AI. Of note, this paper includes four new results in mathematics (carefully verified by the human authors), underscoring how GPT-5 can help human mathematicians settle previously unsolved problems. These contributions are modest in scope but profound in implication, given the rate at which frontier AI is progressing.
AI #176 Part 1: Doing It Live
Enough things added up that this week is getting split into two parts.
