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NEW GPT 5.5 Instant Just Dropped

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast · 2026-06-26 · 7 min
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GPT 5.5 Instant: Faster Replies, Better Intent Understanding + How to Use It in Hermes AgentThe script introduces OpenAI’s newly released GPT 5.5 Instant, describing it as faster and better at understanding intent, following complex constraints, and improving shopping and local recommendations. It notes the rollout begins with subscribers today and expands to free users tomorrow, and explains it can be used inside Hermes Agent via OAuth with an existing ChatGPT subscription, including image generation. The presenter shows a side-by-side speed comparison against Groq Build using a “tell me a joke” prompt, with GPT 5.5 Instant responding in about three seconds versus about nine seconds. The video discusses potential use cases for lightweight chat and delegation, mentions speculation that it may be a stopgap due to an expected GPT 5.6 delay, and offers to run benchmarks on Goldie Bench. It ends by promoting the AI Profit Boardroom community and Hermes agent operating system resources.
✨ Episode Outline — click any point to jump to it in the episode
Problem solved
Showing what GPT 5.5 Instant adds and how to run it fast inside an agent like Hermes.
Benefits
  • Roughly 3-second replies vs 9 seconds
  • Better at understanding user intent
  • Follows stacked rules reliably
  • Improved shopping and local recommendations
  • Free for all users tomorrow
Use cases
  • Quick phone back-and-forth chats while out and about
  • Delegating tasks to subagents in Hermes
  • Shopping via Hermes link on Stripe
  • Image generation model inside Hermes
KPIs / results
  • GPT 5.5 Instant replied in ~3 seconds
  • Grok build took ~9 seconds
Tools / build
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📑 Chapters — tap a time to jump there
00:00
GPT 5.5 Instant Launch
  • GPT 5.5 Instant dropped from OpenAI
  • Better intent, constraints, shopping picks
00:41
Hermes Setup and Access
  • Run it in Hermes via OAuth login
  • Separate GPT 5.5 Instant profile created
01:00
Speed Test Side by Side
  • Side-by-side speed test vs Grok build
  • Same joke prompt to both
02:09
Outputs and Rollout Details
  • GPT 5.5 Instant ~3s, Grok ~9s
  • Rolling out to free users tomorrow
03:29
Why It Matters Use Cases
  • Good for casual chat and subagents
  • Not for building full agent OS
04:27
Release Timing and Setup Commands
  • Hermes profile create GPT 5.5 Instant
  • Point it at ChatGPT/codex login
05:05
Benchmarks and Recap
  • Offer to run GoldieBench benchmarks
  • Not a big frontier update
06:08
Agent OS and Community Pitch
07:10
Wrap Up
  • Join AI Profit Boardroom for Agent OS
  • Daily Hermes tutorials and coaching
There's a brand new version of GPT 5.5 today, which is GPT 5.5 Instant. This is dropped. I'm going to show you what our tests show about it and how it's worked so far. If you've never used this before, basically straight from OpenAI, just dropped a few hours ago. So the model should be better at understanding the intent behind your question and adapting to it. Also handles complex constraints more reliably. So you can basically give it a few rules and it keeps up. Right. And shopping and local recommendations also got more useful too. It's rolling out today. Today is only for subscribers, but tomorrow it will actually roll out to free members as well. Bear in mind, you can use this with Hermes agent or any sort of agent they actually use. So we've already been testing it. We've created a separate profile for GPT 5.5 Instant and it is a lot faster and you can just log in with OWALF. So if you already have a subscription to ChatGPT, you can log in with OWALF into Hermes. You can also use it as the image generation model as well. Now, if you want to indicate how much faster is it actually, let me show you side by side. I actually just tested out a second ago comparing GPT 5.5 Instant, which you can see on the agent profile right here inside the agent operating system. And we've compared that versus the default. So this is like the normal model we would use and this is GPT 5.5 Instant. So what we can do is we can actually see side by side which one performs the fastest and which one replies quicker. So let's actually see if they're faster side by side. So we've got a Grok build built into Hermes over here and then we have GPT 5.5 Instant over here. So we're going to say, OK, tell me a joke and we'll plug those into both of them at the same time. So this is GPT 5.5 Instant. This is Grok build. Let's compare them side by side, see how they perform. All right. And you can see the countdown here. So this replied pretty much instantly. As you can see, this one is a lot slower. So that took about nine seconds. This one took about three seconds to reply, which I think if you're using Hermes or any sort of agent day to day, it does genuinely make a big difference and it helps as well. And then also if we look at the outputs here side by side. So tell me a joke. Why did the developer run out? Because he used up all his cash. That's from Grok build. Let's have a look at GPT 5.5 Instant. Why did the Scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. Both pretty bad jokes, but the point is this is a lot faster and you can just use your existing subscription with it as well. So it's designed to be intuitive, smart and very fun to chat with. He's running out to Pro First and Plus and Free Users Tomorrow. They did an actual example screenshot here. So they just typed in goat birthday. And you can see this. If you're talking about the goat, then today is Lionel Messi's birthday. And then it adds some details here. It says happy birthday to Leo with a goat emoji. So the response is pretty nice on the example right here. It's probably an optimized example, but you know, you get the point. Something to note as well here is like GPT 5.6 was expected. So Mark, you can see here, he posted on X about this. That it might be kind of like a stop gap measure to make up for the fact that GPT 5.6 is delayed, which is pretty interesting. Rarely do I use a model without thinking as well. I mean, that's a really good point. I think what this model would actually be good for is like, if you have, if you're using Hermes, but you just use it as kind of like a chat that's custom trained to you, and you don't really use the agentic tasks or you don't do anything complex with it, it will probably be great for that. So for example, little back and forths like this that you can just do on your phone or when you're out and about. Or if you're trying to delegate tasks to subagents, that could be another option too. When it comes to actually like building something, you know, obviously you're not going to build like a full agent operating system with chat GPT instant. So that's something to bear in mind as well. So why is this important? Well, it means you can probably be a bit lazier and shorter and you'll understand what you mean. So it understands intent better. You can actually stack a few rules and it will follow them. It's better at shopping and local picks. Bear in mind that Hermes now has access to link on Stripe. So it can do shopping for you as well if you weren't aware of that. And you should get better answers as well. Plus it's going to be free for everyone as well. Now, when is GPT 5.6 coming out? A lot of people are saying that it will be released late June. But let's see what happens next. And if you want to create a profile with Hermes agent, if you want to do it, okay, like how do you actually run GPT 5.5 inside your own agent? So you can do it like this. What we did is we said Hermes profile create GPT 5.5 instant. And then you can point it via your chat GPT login like this. And you'll actually use your codex login details. So that's how we plugged it into GPT 5.5. You might also say it sounds technical to use this, but it's just a couple of commands ready to go. What we might do as well, if there's enough interest, is we could run it on the benchmarks compared to all our other benchmarks for each of these agents. We run the same test on every single model, like for example Fusion. If you're interested in that, let me know. And I'll run the benchmarks for GPT 5.5 instant as well. If you want to see how it actually handles like day-to-day tasks like you can see right here. And we test everything on GoldieBench. So if you want to see us add that to the leaderboard, we can do. Just let us know. It's not a big frontier update. So let's see. The other thing I would say is you're probably not going to get a lot out of it on chat GPT directly. But if you're using it for agentic stuff, I could see some real use cases right there. So just to recap, GPT 5.5 instant got an upgrade. It reads your intent. It handles messy stuff. You can set up rules as well. It's coming out for free as well. GPT 5.6 seems to be delayed because there's been no announcement of it. And you can run it inside your agent, like you can see with Hermes agent. It's a lot faster and designed to have a lot more personality as well. Now, if you want to get my full agent operating system where you can run Claude, you can run Gemini, chat GPT, Hermes agents, et cetera. We actually have the Hermes Oracle for the latest news updates and social media content. We have Hermes Jarvis, which is a voice activated version of Hermes. And then we also have, for example, a memory galaxy and loads of other features inside this agent operating system for mission control. Feel free to get that inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Link in the comments description or go to the AIProfitBoard.com. This is my community with one goal, which is to save time. And help you scale with AI automation. Now, if you want the agent OS, you can get that inside the classroom. And we drop new daily Hermes tutorials like you've seen today. Inside here, we also have the agent OS. You can see it's updated daily and you get the zip file to install that. You can also ask questions inside the community. And I personally answer them with video tutorials every day. And inside the calendar, you can jump a weekly coaching course as well. Inside the map, you can meet people in your local area who are building with stuff like ChatGPT and Hermes. And that's all inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Link in the comments description. Or just go to the AI Profit Boardroom.com. Thanks for watching.