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GPT-5.4
DEPLOYif you do professional knowledge work
WHAT SHIPPEDGPT-5.4 is released in ChatGPT as GPT-5.4 Thinking, the API, and Codex, with GPT-5.4 Pro also available. It scores 83.0% on GDPval, 57.7% on SWE-Bench Pro, 75.0% on OSWorld-Verified, and supports up to 1M tokens of context.
THE CATCHThe model is the first general-purpose release with native computer-use capabilities, and it is the most token efficient reasoning model yet, using significantly fewer tokens than GPT-5.2.
IF YOU RUNa team doing spreadsheets, presentations, or documents, GPT-5.4 scores 87.3% on an internal investment banking spreadsheet benchmark versus 68.4% for GPT-5.2
SOURCEOpenAI, Introducing GPT-5.4
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