i think the most underated part of today's launch is not GPT 5.5 at all
GENERATIVE AI
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DeepSeek Flash vs Pro Pelican Image Generation via OpenRouter
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These pelicans are kind of angry looking! Left is deepseek-v4-flash, right is deepseek-v4-pro – both generated using OpenRouter via my LLM tool
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Self-Knowledge Enhances Codex Usability and Performance
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self-knowledge makes codex so much more usable
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Reconstructing chess board position as subtask of image gen
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The point is that reconstructing the chess board position from that prompt was a ludicrous proposition until very recently, and it can now do it as a subtask of other, more traditional image gen work like knowing what FF6 or Chipotle looks like.
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OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents for ChatGPT Business Plans
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🚨OpenAI just rolled out Workspace agents in ChatGPT for Business, Enterprise, Edu & Teachers plans
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 24 avril 2026
Build an agent once and share it across your workspace to automate multi-step workflows – from pulling data in Drive/SharePoint to taking action in Slack, Salesforce, Notion &… pic.twitter.com/nuWHxgXQx8OpenAI just rolled out Workspace agents in ChatGPT for Business, Enterprise, Edu & Teachers plans Build an agent once and share it across your workspace to automate multi-step workflows – from pulling data in Drive/SharePoint to taking action in Slack, Salesforce, Notion &
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Newsletter Covers GPT-4.5, ChatGPT Images, Qwen3 and Agentic Patterns
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This week's edition of my email newsletter features 4 pelicans riding bicycles, 1 possum on an e-scooter, up to 5 raccoons with ham radios hiding in crowds, 5 blog posts, 8 links, 3 quotes and a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide https://
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DeepSeek v4 Pro Added to Playable Gallery
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Here's DeepSeek v4 Pro. Added to the playable gallery as well. https://t.co/foIqZakU9p pic.twitter.com/wpQ8kj9AAT
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 24 avril 2026Here's DeepSeek v4 Pro. Added to the playable gallery as well.
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Standard and Ultra High Context Efficiency in LLMs
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1m Standard and ultra high context efficiency is what me excites me
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First TiKZ Sparks unicorns from DeepSeek v4
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My first two TiKZ Sparks unicorns from DeepSeek v4. (Expert mode, from the DeepSeek site, which is supposed to be v4 Pro according to the release)