OpenAI’s New GPT-5.5 Model Beats Claude Opus 4.7 in Major Benchmarks

After multiple leaks and rumors, GPT-5.5 is finally here. OpenAI has announced the new model, which is codenamed “Spud.” The official announcement came a few hours after the company teased the model via a cryptic post on X. As OpenAI notes in the announcement post, GPT-5.5 is its “smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer.” It’s in fact a major upgrade over GPT-5.4. OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro Let’s say it this way, GPT-5.5 is a threat posed to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7. […]