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Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by gordonhart »

renecito wrote: post #615

why the stats of every AI on every release looks around the same? Are the tests getting harder and harder so the older AIs look worst and the new ones look like they are "almost there" ?

Yes, once benchmarks get saturated they get replaced by harder ones. You don’t see GSM8K, MMLU, or HellaSwag anymore because they’re essentially solved. It takes constant work to make benchmarks hard enough to show meaningful model performance differences but easy enough to score higher than the noise threshold.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by oliver236 »

CompleteSkeptic wrote: post #189

Is this the first time OpenAI has published comparisons to other labs? Seems so to me - see GPT-5.4[1] and 5.2[2] announcements. Might be an tacit admission of being behind. [1] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/ [2] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/

beautiful!!

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by swivelmaster »

butlike wrote: post #260
endymi0n wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you guys do anything about GPT‘s motivation? I tried to use GPT-5.4 API (at xhigh) for my OpenClaw after the Anthropic Oauthgate, but I just couldn‘t drag it to do its job. I had the most hilarious dialogues along the lines of „You stopped, X would have been next.“ - „Yeah, I‘m sorry, I failed. I should have done X next.“ - „Well, how about you just do it?“ - „Yep, I really should have done it now.“ - “Do X, righ…

This brings up an interesting philosophical point: say we get to AGI... who's to say it won't just be a super smart underachiever-type? "Hey AGI, how's that cure for cancer coming?" "Oh it's done just gotta...formalize it you know. Big rollout and all that..." I would find it divinely funny if we "got there" with AGI and it was just a complete slacker. Hard to justify leaving it on, but too important to turn it off.

Douglas Adams would be proud!

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by apical_dendrite »

pixel_popping wrote: post #31
minimaxir wrote: post #24

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Competition.

This is frankly exciting, outside of the politics of it all, it always feel great to wake up and a new model being released, I personally will stay awake quite long tonight if GPT-5.5 drop in codex.

I don't find it exciting at all. I just feel anxiety about my career and my place in the world. I have a set of skills that I've developed over many years. I care about what I create. I consider it a craft. When I use my skills to solve a hard problem, I feel good about myself. When the AI does the work for me, I don't get that sense of accomplishment. I am seeing my value evaporate before my eyes.

I hate this stuff and I wish it had never been invented.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by oliver236 »

2001zhaozhao wrote: post #343
tedsanders wrote: post #203

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Yep, it's more expensive per token. However, I do want to emphasize that this is per token, not per task. If we look at Opus 4.7, it uses smaller tokens (1-1.35x more than Opus 4.6) and it was also trained to think longer. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index eval for example, in order to hit a score of 57%, Opus 4.7 takes ~5x as many output tokens as GPT-5.5, w…

I don't have anything to add, but I like how you guys are actually sending people to communicate in Hacker News. Brilliant.

you're one of them?

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by dhruv3006 »

tedsanders wrote: post #19

Just as a heads up, even though GPT-5.5 is releasing today, the rollout in ChatGPT and Codex will be gradual over many hours so that we can make sure service remains stable for everyone (same as our previous launches). You may not see it right away, and if you don't, try again later in the day. We usually start with Pro/Enterprise accounts and then work our way down to Plus. We know it's slightly annoying to have to…

Yep - its taking sometime.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by [deleted] »

simonw wrote: post #195

This doesn't have API access yet, but OpenAI seem to approve of the Codex API backdoor used by OpenClaw these days... https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2046775849769148838 and https://twitter.com/romainhuet/status/2038699202834841962 And that backdoor API has GPT-5.5. So here's a pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/23/gpt-5-5/#and-some-peli... I used this new plugin for LLM: https://github.com/simonw/llm-op…

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Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by subhobroto »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #294
mudkipdev wrote: post #160

This is 3x the price of GPT-5.1, released just 6 months ago. Is no one else alarmed by the trend? What happens when the cheaper models are deprecated/removed over time?

This is entirely expected. The low prices of using LLMs early on was totally and completely unsustainable. The companies providing such services were (and still are) burning money by the truckload. The hope is to get a big userbase who eventually become dependent on it for their workflow, then crank up the price until it finally becomes profitable. The price for all models by all companies will continue to go up, and…

> The price for all models by all companies will continue to go up, and quickly.

This might entirely be true but I'm hoping that's because the frontier models are just actually more expensive to run as well.

Said another way, I would hope, the price of GPT-5.5 falls significantly in a year when GPT-5.8 is out.

Someone else on this post commented:

> For API usage, GPT-5.5 is 2x the price of GPT-5.4, ~4x the price of GPT-5.1, and ~10x the price of Kimi-2.6.

Having used Kimi-2.6, it can go on for hours spewing nonsense. I personally am happy to pay 10x the price of something that doesn't help me, for something else that does, in even half the time.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by simonw »

i_love_retros wrote: post #739
noonething wrote: post #475

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Thank you for doing all this. It's appreciated.

You do realise they are doing it for self promotion right?

I mean, yeah. "Person who spends time publishing content online is doing it for self promotion" doesn't seem particularly notable to me. 24 years of self promotion and counting!
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