GPT 5.5 has been released.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11909943-gpt-53-and-gpt-55-in-chatgpt?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Below is content explaining what has changed in GPT.
According to official explanations, GPT-5.5 is a model aimed at complex real-world tasks. It is designed to better handle code writing, online research, information analysis, document and spreadsheet work, and tasks that involve switching between multiple tools.
The biggest difference is this.
Change | Perceived difference |
|---|
Understanding complex goals | Even when users speak vaguely, it grasps "Ah, so this person ultimately wants to do this" more quickly |
Maintaining multi-step tasks | Even when it gets longer in the middle, it forgets less about the decisions, conditions, and constraints made earlier |
Improved tool usage ability | It blends things like web search, file analysis, document creation, and code execution more naturally |
Enhanced self-review | Before giving an answer, it tries to better check for missing parts or contradictions |
Output conciseness | A direction where unnecessary headers, verbose disclaimers, and formal language decrease |
Task persistence | A direction where the frequency of "doing a bit then stopping to ask the user for clarification" decreases |
After actually using it, unnecessary conversation-inducing phrases have decreased, and opening phrases like "I've hit the core" have also disappeared.
I should test once whether it understands high-context Korean too. 🤣
Actually, the lengthy outputs it used to produce have also disappeared.