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Tech· 2026-04-23· 5min

GPT-5.5: The Benchmark Jump Isn't the Story. Tokens Per Task Is.

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 today. Everyone will quote the Terminal-Bench 2.0 jump from 75.1% to 82.7% — and miss the claim buried further down: significantly fewer tokens per Codex task, and state-of-the-art coding intelligence at half the cost of competitive frontier models. Here's which number to actually watch, and a decision rule for when to switch.

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Tech· 2026-04-22· 5min

The Image Model Started Thinking

On April 21, OpenAI shipped gpt-image-2 — the first image model with a reasoning step in the middle of the generation loop. The 242-ELO leap on LMArena is the headline number. It is not the story. The story is that image generation stopped being decoding and started being thinking, and the workflows built around the old assumption are about to invert.

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