As the AI race intensifies, major technology companies are launching new AI models almost daily. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5. This release comes less than two months after the debut of GPT-5.4, highlighting the rapid pace of innovation driving the AI sector. The new model offers improved performance in coding, computer use, and advanced research capabilities.
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OpenAI is scrambling to match competitors such as Google and Anthropic, whose newest system, Claude Mythos Preview, has captured the attention of Wall Street.
“What is really special about this model is how much more it can do with less guidance,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman said during a briefing with reporters on Thursday. “It can look at an unclear problem and figure out just what needs to happen next. It really, to me, feels like it’s setting the foundation for how we’re going to use computers, how we’re going to do computer work going forward.”
OpenAI has started deploying GPT-5.5 to its paying customers, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise via ChatGPT and its coding assistant Codex, with API availability anticipated soon, pending extra safety measures. According to the company, the new model offers robust capabilities in data analysis, programming, software control, online research, and generating documents and spreadsheets.
On safety, OpenAI states that GPT-5.5 stays below its “Critical” cybersecurity risk threshold which would indicate potential for “unprecedented new pathways to severe harm” but is classified as “High” risk, meaning it could still “amplify existing pathways to severe harm.”
OpenAI’s Vice President of Research, Mia Glaese, stated that the model has been subjected to extensive third-party safety evaluations and red teaming focused on cyber and biological risks, with safeguards continually being enhanced as its capabilities grow.
The launch follows rising industry-wide concerns over AI safety, particularly after Anthropic released its Mythos model earlier this month, which drew warnings because of its capacity to identify software vulnerabilities and security weaknesses.