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

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

From ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week by From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week

April 23, 2026 · 2h 24m

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This episode covers significant updates from OpenAI, including the launch of GPT 5.5 and advancements in image generation.

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…

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Host: Alex Volkov

Guest: Peter Gostev

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Organizations: OpenAI, Anthropic

Products: GPT 5.5, GPT 5.5 Pro, GPT-image-v2, Codex, Claude Design, Kimi K2.6, Qwen 3.6 27B

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