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Jun 29, 2026

The Strongest Model Just Dropped, and I’m Not 'Qualified' to Use It

The day GPT 5.5 launched, it showed up in Codex overnight. With 5.6, three tiers and beautiful benchmarks—yet my dropdown was empty. Only ~20 partners got access, each requiring U.S. government approval. I’d worried the best intelligence was becoming about money; now I take half of that back: intelligence you can buy is already the fair kind.

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