A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API
Simon Willison 行业观点 入门 Impact: 7/10
Although OpenAI's latest model GPT-5.5 hasn't officially launched its API, developers are already accessing it through a 'semi-official backdoor' in its Codex CLI using their ChatGPT subscription, revealing new dynamics in the battle over AI model distribution channels.
Key Points
- GPT-5.5 is released but its API is not yet publicly available
- limited to ChatGPT subscribers and Codex
- The developer community discovered they can call the model directly using existing subscriptions via a specific Codex CLI endpoint
- OpenAI tacitly approves or even encourages this
- in stark contrast to Anthropic's ban of similar tools
- Simon Willison developed an LLM plugin based on this
- allowing any developer to 'freeload' the API via subscription
Analysis
"The Context: A New Model Launches, But Without an API
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