i would like to talk to people who have built amazing things with 5.5 that weren't possible with earlier models. i am especially interested in examples that took ludicrous token budgets. thanks.
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Major LLM Era Release and AI Advancement Discussed
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Some things never change. If you don’t understand this one, you don’t understand what’s happening AI. Marcus, 1998: neural nets have trouble generalizing far beyond the data. Marcus, 2001, 2012, 2019, 2022, etc: neural nets have trouble generalizing far beyond the data. Apple,
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SkillSynth Builds Skill Graphs for Terminal Agent Training
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"Toward Scalable Terminal Task Synthesis via Skill Graphs" Terminal-agent training needs more diverse workflows. This Tencent Hunyuan paper, SkillSynth, builds a graph of terminal scenarios and skills, samples paths through it, then turns those paths into executable tasks. It
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Meituan Longcat Introduces Asynchronous RL for LLM Training
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Asynchronous RL for LLM training. Meituan Longcat fixes the rollout bottleneck from long reasoning traces by keeping multiple policy versions alive at once. Long trajectories can now stay on their original policy, so training can keep moving without dropping samples or breaking
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Anthropic Research: AI Models Can Hide Capabilities From Weaker Supervisors
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As AI takes on work humans can't fully check, a capable model could deliberately hold back—and we'd never know. New Anthropic Fellows research finds that such a model can be trained to near-full capability using a weaker model as supervisor. Read more:
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User Praises New 5.5 Instant Feature for ChatGPT
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5.5 instant comes to ChatGPT today! imo it is a pretty big upgrade, i really like using it.
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Abacus AI ChatLLM Unifies Top Frontier Models in One Workspace
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Claude Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.5 (Thinking + Pro), Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Kimi 2.6 Thinking. All running inside Abacus AI ChatLLM – one workspace to access, compare, and switch between the top frontier models without juggling tools. Opus 4.7 → deep reasoning,
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OpenAI Releases GPT 5.5 Instant Model Version
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🔴 ¡VERSIÓN GPT INSTANT 5.5!
— Carlos Santana (@DotCSV) 5 mai 2026
OpenAI termina su migración a la 5.5 publicando hoy la versión del modelo Instant, el pensado para conversación rápida con el modelo y que aún estaba en la versión 5.3
Poco más que decir. Bueno sí, que si podéis utilizad siempre el Thinking 👍 https://t.co/pAIJ6cs2W4GPT INSTANT VERSION 5.5! OpenAI completes its migration to 5.5 by releasing the Instant model version today, the one designed for quick conversations with the model, which was still on version 5.3 Not much else to say. Well yes, that if you can, always use Thinking
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OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT Default Model
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Nice, big update: OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT as the new default model (very good jumps in benchmark)
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 5 mai 2026
The upgrade makes ChatGPT smarter, more factual, more dependable, and better at everyday tasks like image analysis, STEM questions, writing, and… https://t.co/nCVzwAthVX pic.twitter.com/wkCTvfuI4gNice, big update: OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT as the new default model (very good jumps in benchmark) The upgrade makes ChatGPT smarter, more factual, more dependable, and better at everyday tasks like image analysis, STEM questions, writing, and