GPT-5.1 Drops: OpenAI Chases EQ
GPT-5.1 warms up: smarter, empathetic, custom tones. Paid users get it first; free tier soon. OpenAI swaps benchmarks for EQ—chat that feels human.
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OpenAI has officially released GPT-5.1, but this time it’s a bit different.
After reading through the entire official blog, I noticed a particularly interesting detail: not a single benchmark comparison chart. No benchmark data, no “XX% performance improvement,” and even the usual “faster and stronger” rhetoric is noticeably scarce.
This doesn’t seem like OpenAI, until I saw this statement:
“We heard clearly from users that great AI needs to not only be smart, but also pleasant to talk to.”
The new version is indeed smarter—reasoning is more rigorous, code is more elegant—but most notably, it finally feels human, and for the first time allows us to fine-tune its conversational style in detail.
Chatting with AI is no longer that tool-like question-and-answer exchange, but has become witty, atmosphere-aware, able to pick up conversational threads, and can even chat idly with you for ages.
It seems after GPT-5’s reputation collapsed last time, OpenAI finally listened to feedback and, for the first time, broke through the window paper, admitting that just chasing benchmarks is useless—users want AI that can communicate well, demanding both practicality and emotional value.