OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is here, and it's no potato: narrowly beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview on Terminal-Bench 2.0

After months of rumors and reports that OpenAI was developing a new, more powerful AI large language model for use in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API), allegedly codenamed "Spud" internally, the company has today unveiled its latest offering under the more formal name GPT-5.5.And to likely no one's surprise, it's hardly a "potato" in the disparaging sense of the word: GPT-5.5 retakes the lead for OpenAI in generally available LLMs, com...