# 📅 Apr 23: OpenAI's Week: GPT-5.5, GPT-Image-2, Codex CUA + Chronicle, + Claude Design, Kimi K2.6, Qwen 3.6-27B

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Published: 2026-04-24T01:29:22+00:00
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Hey, Alex here, I’ll try to catch you up, but it’s one of the more intense weeks in AI in recent memory. Here’s the TL;DR - OpenAI dominates across the board this week! Finally launches “spud”, called it GPT 5.5 (and 5.5 Pro) , and it’s SOTA on most things,nearly matching the mysterious Claude Mythos but released and we can actually use it (we tested it extensively). OpenAI also took the crown in image generate with the incredible GPT-image-v2 release, beating Nano Banana 2 and pro by a significant margin, the images are incredible, this model can generate working QR codes and 360 images it’s quite bonkers. Codex was updated with Computer Use (which I told you about last week), in-app browser and a bunch of other tools that match GPT 5.5 intelligence. Meanwhile, Anthropic launched an incredible research preview of Claude Design , finally admitted that Claude was dumb and reset quotas across the board, while breaking the trust of the community with removing Claude code from the pro plan. We’ve also got great open source updates, Kimi K2.6 and Qwen 3.6 27B are both great performers! We were live on the stream for almost 4 hours today waiting for GPT 5.5 and finally got it and tested it live on the show + had Peter Gostev on from Arena who had early access and shared with us his insights. Let’s get into it! ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 is here - SOTA AI intelligence you can actually use ( Release Blog ) OpenAI finally gave us all access to their latest intelligence boost, GPT 5.5 thinking (and GPT 5.5 Pro). These models take the crown across many benchmarks, including TerminalBench (82.7%), GPDval (84%) and more. You c…

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