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OpenAI Ships GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's Default Model
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant becomes the default ChatGPT model, with factuality gains, memory personalization, and 86% free-tier GPQA benchmark score.
May 6, 20262 min read

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant becomes the default ChatGPT model, with factuality gains, memory personalization, and 86% free-tier GPQA benchmark score.
GPT-5.5 Instant replaces prior ChatGPT default: 86% GPQA score (free tier), stronger factuality, memory personalization, API alias gpt-5.5-chat-latest.
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