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GPT-5.5 Instant visual reasoning performance

OpenAIX · May 5, 2026 · official

GPT-5.5 Instant visual reasoning performance

OpenAI's grouped bar chart drew 147.3K views on X: 0.9x its median post and #316 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

GPT-5.5 Instant improves visual reasoning accuracy

XData Grouped bar chart GPT-5 All OpenAI modelsGPT-5.3 InstantGPT-5.5 Instant

OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Instant visual reasoning performance — Published by OpenAI on X, May 5, 2026. Source: x.com

67/ 100

ViralChart score

Reached and resonated

More views and a higher engagement rate than the median post: it travelled and people acted on it.

#293 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #27 of 74 OpenAI posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

Reached and resonated: views and engagement rate both at or above the AI chart median, with a score rank of #293.

Its views-per-follower of 0.027 sits at the 17th percentile, below the 0.20 median across posts with known followers.

Its score of 67 ranks #293 of 1,162 AI chart posts, above the median for all AI chart posts.

This 2-chart post shares its numbers across every chart, a level factor for multi-chart posts.

0.03views per follower

147.3K views from an account with 5.4M followers.

2charts in this one post

The numbers belong to the post, so every chart in it shares them and it is ranked once.

bottom 28%save rate

0.049% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

top 33%engagement rate

0.91% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 13, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 74 from OpenAI.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #293 of 1,162

Views	147.3K	#316	top 27%
Likes	1.2K	#230	top 20%
Engagement rate	0.91%	#382	top 33%
Save rate	0.049%	#841	bottom 28%

Among 74 OpenAI posts

Score #27 of 74

Views	147.3K	#40	bottom 47%
Likes	1.2K	#25	top 33%
Engagement rate	0.91%	#10	top 13%
Save rate	0.049%	#37	top 49%

Growth

Our reads cover 28 hours

Views147.3K

Age at our read161 days

Views per day of life914views divided by days since it was posted

Gained between our reads+6views over 28 hours, about 5 a day now

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

OpenAI's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · May 5, 2026

OpenAI GPT-5.5 Instant visual reasoning accuracy chart

A grouped bar chart shows GPT-5.5 Instant improving visual reasoning accuracy over GPT-5.3 Instant.

What happened

OpenAI posted a grouped bar chart on May 5, 2026, comparing GPT-5.5 Instant and GPT-5.3 Instant on visual reasoning benchmarks. The post included 2 charts, the other being GPT-5.5 Instant STEM Performance.

The numbers

The post drew 147K views, ranking #316 of 1,162 AI chart posts. Its score of 67 ranks #293 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #27 of 74 OpenAI posts.

The lesson

Readers saved this 2-model comparison at a 0.049% save rate, a clean table is what people keep to cite.

What it means

Its views-per-follower of 0.027 is below the 0.20 median, yet the post still reached the top quartile of AI chart posts by score.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 13, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Updates: what OpenAI posted next

Data and API

4 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 97%

Series	Group	Value	Read
CharXiv-reasoning Scientific Chart Reasoning	GPT-5.3 Instant	75 %	printed
CharXiv-reasoning Scientific Chart Reasoning	GPT-5.5 Instant	81.6 %	printed
MMMU-Pro Expert Multimodal Reasoning	GPT-5.3 Instant	69.2 %	printed
MMMU-Pro Expert Multimodal Reasoning	GPT-5.5 Instant	76 %	printed

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/225652b9f404.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/225652b9f404.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/225652b9f404.skill.md

Make one like this Open the post JSON Chart data JSON Skill file API docs

Static files in this prototype. The post JSON holds the public numbers, ranks, score, quadrant, our reads and, when checked, our copy.

API · Max

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On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id 225652b9f404.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/225652b9f404`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/225652b9f404/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/225652b9f404/render?view=1`	The draw-only view this page uses	Open
POST	`/mcp`	Tool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agents	Max

curlMax

curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/225652b9f404/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

Claude CodeMax

claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.

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