On Thursday, OpenAI announced the release of GPT-5.5, the latest update to its flagship model. It is exactly as much of an upgrade as the jump from 5.4 to 5.5 would suggest. The company called the model its “most intuitive to use” and a “next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer,” which seems like the kind of thing you say when you don’t have major improvements to show right now. In a blog post, it did say that the model runs faster than previous iterations and shows “gains” in “agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, and early scientific research—areas where progress depends on reasoning across context and taking action over time.” For now, we’ll have to take their word on that. On X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his excitement for GPT-5.5, stating , “I personally like it.” Wow. Altman also praised the team behind it, saying, “Really excellent work by the inference team to serve this model so efficiently,” in reference to the model’s reportedly improved performance.…