I find the Sunday roast comparison of 5.6 vs 6 very interesting. I have no doubt most people will prefer 6, yet I am almost repulsed by all the images, so much needless whitespace, checklist and so on. Feels like I'm being condescended to and treated like a child.

Given that OpenAI is making noises about merging work with chat (a horrible idea imo), and Work is very similar to Codex... I dearly hope things like these won't have any meaningful cross-polination into the actual work tools.

Seeing that the chat is based on 6.0 and not 6.1 is disappointing. The "Visual and interactive explanations" seems genuinely useful, but 6.1 is just so much better. I wouldn't truly trust the 6.1 with the explanations, but I'd trust them a fair bit more than 6.0. I understand that compute isn't infinite, but tons of people only interact with the chat and having your "things-explainer" be as good as it can be is important when people increasingly treat AI models as the source of truth, or even use them for academic learning and whatnot.

Still, the models will improve, so the visual explainer seems pretty good as an idea / mvp.

Of everything that could be automated, Bartosz Ciechanowski really was the last on my list.

In all seriousness, his lovingly and expertly crafted explainers are still going to age like a handcrafted heirloom clock in a world of plastic-clad quartz movements. But it’s absolutely incredible that we are now in an age where a computer can manufacture a serviceable interactive explainer on whatever niche topic you desire.

Funny to see a blog post about UI from one of the most funded tech companies in the world, yet the player has about the worst UI possible:

- Audio volume has 2 levels: on and off

- Play button worked exactly once for me: it played and looped the video. Couldn't be stopped afterwards.

- The video progress bar has no visual indication of where it starts and where it ends..

Is this what Phind died for?

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/gpt-6-october.pdf

System card linked in the blog post.

> regression on the extremism vision evaluation.

> Relative to their respective GPT-5.6 counterparts, GPT-6 Sol (October) shows a statistically significant regression on standard self-harm, while GPT-6 Luna (October) shows statistically significant regressions on standard self-harm, gore, and sexual content

> "GPT-6 Sol (October) and GPT-6 Luna (October) show an improvement on helpfulness on legitimate requests relative to prior models, though it scores lower on some safety requests"

Concerning how there's significant regressions on so many critical benchmarks, but it is newer and creates UI, so must be good.

It’s crazy that a company can document these safety drops in a PDF, ship the model anyway, and focus the announcement entire on shiny new UI

I've had the most success with GPT explaining things to me by making it take a few sentences at a time back and forth, instead of reading full write-ups of whatever I asked. It also often poisons the conversation if it misunderstood some part of the question, and I can lead it better by continuously questioning its statements. It's also more engaging that way.

I've been learning music lately and it kept re-pasting the same one chord visualization throughout many conversations, almost randomly and often barely related to the question. So I at least hope this won't be as aggressive so I can prompt it away!

This seems like a way for them to surface ads in ChatGPT. They just came out with visual ad format option for advertisers a couple of days ago: https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-ads-format-and-measurem...

I've been calling this "disposable UI" or "paper plate UI", eg something meant to be used once. One thing I'll be curious about is overzealousness to produce this, when sometimes what you want is just a simple response. Overall though I'm a big fan of it, if it can be provided fast enough. I'd be curious on how much impact it has on latency of a response.

I'm not a fan of OpenAI / Sam Altman, but I love their blog posts. The team and whoever decides how to do these presentations, is on point. The only other company that has amazing release pages like this is Apple, I think I remember hearing that they probably hired someone from apple who used to do release blog posts there too.

What's funny about "Intelligent UI" is I said like 2 or more years ago, that these AI companies need to start thinking outside of these basic chat UIs, they do some things here and there, but its really depressing how little they do to innovate in these spaces. Same with the coding harnesses, the UI for all these things could be drastically superior.

On the video, clicking on the play icon mutes the sound, and clicking on the loudspeaker icon to unmute, stops transport. Is this "intelligent UI" or just a sick joke?

GPT-6's design sense is kind of ridiculous imo.

I have explicit instructions to tone it down. Less taglines, eyebrow text, subheadings, decorative spacing, pills, cards.

Hopefully this doesn't bleed into the chat...

Any details about the streaming ui lib they mention or about the format of the ui code? This could become really annoying to be fractioned among model providers with custom RL that required independent tools like open code to use each providers custom streaming UI libraries.

Burning question: why is this worth paying for as a layman? I can sometimes find a use for all these LLMs for software development, but I can never find a good use for any of this outside of "slightly better search engine".

Maybe I don't get it yet, but why do you need a new model for this? Wouldn't this more be an issue of "harness"/chat UI engineering?

All the current-generation models can oneshot HTML/Javascript frontends of comparable complexity (though maybe not as polished). The only difference is that you have to specifically ask them, and the result is not embedded in the chat.

It feels like it should be easy to have a harness provide a "show HTML widget in the chat" tool and a skill and/or system prompt that instructs the model to generate such widgets on-the-fly if the response could benefit from interactivity.

What am I missing here?

I find it extremely strange that they're adding GPT-6 Sol to Chat over GPT-6.1 Sol which is significantly more capable.

We are becoming more and more as a tool for sth to be done rather than the brain behind it. At least I start to feel this way. The joy of discovery, exploration and experiencing at first hand... It is slowly diminishing for the perfection of the quick outcome.

Thank god. My primary use of ChatGPT is meal planning and while it’s great for recording, recipe lookup, etc I always just wanted it to be able to make checkable grocery lists.

I eventually just had it make a skill for work mode that would build a mini checklist app, but it was slow and felt janky needing to remember to switch to work mode.

This is already such a huge improvement.

It feels that cgpt 6 is giving less exhaustive answers than 5.6. Both in high. I believe that they are using Terra for normal chat and even if 6 answers are coming faster, they also are much less detailed. What I like with cgpt 5.6 is that for each question I send it, it checks coherence with the rest of what we've been going through until there.

Is this OpenAI catching up with Anthropic artifacts? At the same time they say "We’ve trained GPT‑6 to compose responses using text, visuals and interactive elements...", rather than a harness.

I'm excited about generating UIs (and apps) on demand, because it's one step closer to devices just morphing to the interface you need. I want to talk to my phone and have it generate the app or interface I need. I could see Android adapting to this reality well before Apple.

I'm curious to see how useful this is. I feel like in practice the existing versions of this feel like they get in the way. While I'm sure I've had some situations where a visual would be helpful, there are two situations where I do not want it:

1) I want a quick answer, and I don't care for the boilerplate UI. For example, if I ask how to make pancakes, I make them all the time and just want to a quick reminder on the ratios, but it might trigger a full UI that I need to sort through to find information.

2) If I ask a to me unrelated to UI question and it triggers a big UI build that is completely off topic for my question (meaning I'm desperately pressing the stop button and prepping rewriting my query)

Or the other one I see, for example if I look up a unix command like:

"ls all hidden files in the /xxx directory"

And I get back:

"Sorry, I am am unable to find /xxx in my current environment"

IMO they're making a mistake trying to shove every possible product into ChatGPT. Just focus on making the core functionality better.

This brings Mathematica’s Manipulate elements to mind. I love those, once you determine the variables and make it interactive concepts come alive.

At least seems a fist step out of the serial interface of chats.

The history of the internet to date:

People make simple text websites → Google comes along and indexes all websites → People can freely and easily find information! → Google slowly perverts the incentives with ads → Websites replace simple text with complex UIs and paywalls → People can no longer easily find information → OpenAI indexes all these complex websites and turns them into simple text answers → People can freely and easily find information again! → OpenAI perverts the incentives with ads → OpenAI replaces simple text with complex UIs and paywalls → People can no longer easily find information.

And so on…

I wish things like bikes came with mostly-written manuals. Maybe a few diagrams. If anything, things are too pictorial these days.

Intelligent UI for everyone is Bret Victor's vision for computing UX finally coming to fruition.

I've always found his work impressive, but for the most part it was all prototypes and proofs of concept.

Having such interactivity available to everyone now is nothing short of groundbreaking and another indication AI works as the great equalizer by democratising capabilities previously available only to a select few.

Honestly it feels like AI companies are still searching for the killer idea that will attract the general public (beyond "be my AI bf" or "better google").

Getting a UI that explains the parts of a bike is ok I guess, but isn't it simpler to get an actual breakdown? Google "parts of bicycle breakout" gets tons of useful images instantly.

Getting a specialized app to split a bill? It was already trivial to put in a calculator if we cared to go item by item on the bill. Having to provide names and tag every item as I go is just more work. Usually real people just go $total divide by 5, I had more, let me chip in an extra $10.

Same with booking travel and wedding plans, these aren't things people would even delegate to a trusted friend usually, much less a one-off request to an AI bot or custom UI.

Most of the useful tasks it can do right now are research, technical question/answer, coding. In terms of "build a flexible ui that solves real-world problem", if existing mobile app isn't useful in this arena, then its unlikely a completely custom UI will do the job.

That said, I've done a few small ones like a quick one to practice alphabet of a foreign language, or prototyping a web game, and the like. But ultimately its nothing that is worth trillions of dollars.

I've been thinking a lot about this transition happening, and I hope that everyone is recognizing that this is what the web will probably look like very soon.

URL-->user request--> answer & visualization.

No more static menus, buttons, lists, etc.

There's probably some good work out there helping small businesses adapt to this change? If done right, the real-time token use to generate dynamic pages can be minimized.

How would a user know whether a generated visualization to illustrate some process is accurate or not?

Really exciting to see GPT-6 pushing intelligent UI forward. Making these capabilities accessible to everyone could open up a lot of possibilities for developers and users.

Is it just me, or did they make the examples in the video comically unintuitive? Painting swatches without color, a guide pamphlet without a map, assembly instructions without diagrams?

Is this supposed to be humor that I'm not getting, or are they really saying, "look at this solution to a problem you would have if you did normal things in the worst possible way"? It almost feels like the video is trolling us.

The irony really is that LLMs are partly responsible for the walls and walls of text as seen in the video in the first place.

And now we are asking LLMs to solve it.

I might be wrong but I remember that when Gemini 3 was released they also kind of promised something similar. But I’ve never actually seen it in real conversations. I’m not a heavy Gemini user so it’s possible it’s there but I haven’t seen a single demo showing this.

1.2B weekly active users? WAU!

I was mixed on this from this page, but for my use cases at least, I'm finding it immediately helpful.

AFAIK, they already had a simpler form of this. It was kind of an obvious next step. Now connect it up to tools so that we can again comfortably do the things that are more precise by hand! The “pick a color” or “select the width on a slider” use case is coming closer.

"But when will we recoup our investments?" Investor to Gavin Belson after he presents a whole zoo of animals for analogies.

This is now trying to steal YouTube repair and cooking videos. Here is news for you: People prefer YouTube repair and cooking videos.

The medium is the message here. As others have said, chat output largely sucks for anything but the most basic responses and we've done little to improve upon that foundational UI in the last couple years. We've _added_ a lot for specific domains like coding and document editing, but the primary content normal users get back from the chats is verbose and uninteresting. This is a step in the right direction.

Gettin closer to fully dynamic interfaces for a lot of software. Hell, give me a mode in Google Docs that takes every pixel of chrome away then vibe the rest as I need it. Persist across new documents going forward.

I think most responses here are missing the bigger picture, this is the beginning of the end for individual apps and websites, a big rollup of everything into a single tool. A sad day.

If it is for everyone, open source the weights and model information. This is a for profit enterprise built on non profit and theft.

Make it open or it is not for everyone.

It reminded me of when Twitter introduced Stories. I just want to read raw text without pictures, but that's probably not most people's preference. Understandable and sad.

IMO visualization is such a critical part of explanation - we have created an entire suite of tools to visualize - presentations, graphs, formatted docs, websites, svgs, interactive blocks, apps.

To that front - model providers generating visualization elements (i,e taking over the tools for interaction and visualization) is just a natural next step in value capture.

Anthropic launched docs, presentations, sites and am sure they have sheets next up their alley. Apps are artifacts. Tool forming is a natural model adjacency.

Wait, is this new? I feel like we all have been doing this with widgets / artifacts for a long time now, am I missing something? Just easier to use / done without asking?

I wrote something like this, though not quite as slick, by having the model use json schema to describe its results instead of text, and then use a json-schema to ui interface.

The intro video is just lame. Those things never happen in real life.

I am pretty convinced that businesses will be making custom internal software as a norm in the next few years, and this seems to be a slight push in that direction

I'm confused. Are they trying steamroll every developers B2C product or are they wanting these same developers to continue building MCP-App plugins on the platform?

This seems like an expansion on something I was getting my agent to do which is use 'cards' to communicate using things like tables, rather than the ascii table stuff Claude code likes to do.

Unsure if this has been done already but the best thing I did was get it to create a list of next steps as quick buttons that it keeps updated in a docked card. It works well but occasionally gets stuck on some un related rabbit hole.

> The compiler allows the interface to appear progressively as the model generates it, without waiting for the entire response to be complete.

why not just stream html?

All those recipe blogs and sites that have figured out the most inefficient way to deliver information are finally cooked.

I feel like I'm going mad looking at this page. The bike disassembly looks fake to me, like an alien would show presumed bike parts, but I can't tell why and don't know much about bikes. Maybe it's because there are no screws and nuts?

What is it supposed to demonstrate? That the model knows some kind of folk mereology?

Great product idea. I have not paid OpenAI for a subscription for a couple of years, I’m tempted now. I do about 75% of my work using local models and most of the rest using the deepseek 4.1 flash API. That said $20 to experiment with this new product for a month sounds like a pretty fun idea.

How about a truly intelligent UI? :)

Today i wanted to reencode and downscale a screen capture video to make it small enough to send to other people. I had a chatbot generate me the ffmpeg command line, but when will i be able to tell "Apple Intelligence" or some other "Intelligence" just "resize this to 720p, make it mp4 and drop the audio"? You know, like in Blade Runner.

Edit: oh wait, Samsung already did it like in Blade Runner, when they "enhanced" the moon photos until they had details that were impossible to capture with those optics...

I think this means that the API "chat-latest" model is now serving a custom GPT-6 variant: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/chat-latest

Sounds like Google's Generative UI (Nov 2025): https://research.google/blog/generative-ui-a-rich-custom-vis...

This seems like a step towards their plan for building a platform in competition of Google/Apple. Once the generative UIs are polished and more useful than individual apps, their hardware can now ship a device which circumvents the app store moat.

This seems like a natural progression of models becoming better at frontend coding in general.

"Here is a library of [svelte/react/whatever] components, use them to construct a helpful visual to demonstrate your point."

The deconstructed bike at the beginning was in a class of its own, however.

It makes sense they’re doing this - I’ve noticed lately when asking a more complex question involving a lot of nonlinear data using Codex work mode, Astra and Sol will write a fully html document to better display the info with a Cliff’s Notes version in chat.

Interesting to see that city guides are still the #1 use case used for those demo videos.

Gemini had this UI thing before .

Wait did ChatGPT make paint chips without the actual color printed on them, just the text description? and now we need ChatGPT to show us what the color is?

There have been recent developments that allow people to interpret Swift on device, live. With this new launch, will the AI be able to write native code and compile it on device? That would be super cool.

I'm also building something similar for an internal project, based on the vercel's json-render design. It hasn't been too challenging, especially since the release of faster models like 5.6 Luna.

So I guess it's going to nail the bicycle the Pelican rides on, right?

I find the video strange. Are we meant to empathize with people who get flummoxed by everyday life? "Oh woe is me, I can neither assemble a bike nor ask a friend for help!" Of all the challenges in my life, the tiny mundane ones are the ones that can be most fun; those are the opportunities to laugh at myself, and to revel in small & happy victories. It's the charm of life.

"More than" 20% of the connected world uses ChatGPT each week eh? I guess if you add Anthropic who must also claim 20% and Google, Meta.. that does not sound realistic at all.

Not sure why but the website is half in Dutch, half in English for me.

Written manuals/guides come with pictures. The ad is dishonest.

I like how, whenever a new model releases, they not only make other companies' models seem worse, but even their own "oLdeR" models.

Similar to https://www.monogram.ai/.

I guess the above is mostly mobile focused.

They seem to be pitching something that pretty much all the decent models can already do..?

Obviously if your model is stuck inside a CLI terminal, then not so much. But in a GUI harness (shameless plug for my own one: https://juggler.studio, but I assume others can do this too), you just ask them to answer in HTML and they'll happily draw pretty pictures inline in the conversation. I've been doing this for ages with claude, GPT, Deepseek and others.

For once Gemini did it first. I never found those mini GUIs useful though. More like a waste of time and energy.

In the video, they showed examples of ChatGPT making interactive tutorials on how to fold origami, how to arrange colours/interior and how to assemble a bike.

Supposedly, people were struggling to follow written manuals and they needed an interactive explanations.

I'm not a mathematician and I would certainly love having a tool that would do ELI5 on some complex stuff, but I'm really worrying about using this too often and outsourcing my ability to do stuff to some mega corp.

Love it. I've been using $visualize a lot in the codex desktop app, and having even richer experiences will be sweet.

Wait, didnt claude release this quite a while ago??

Too much visual noise. You don’t need a table comparing America now to the 1970s or whatever.

I noticed this change too! It is really game changer - to me ChatGPT output has no rivals here.

IIRC Google had an experimental project with this kind of stuff 2 years ago, but Google being Google...

The videos don't display at all, though sound plays, on MacOS Safari. Mobile Safari does work. MacOS Chrome (where they actually tested I imagine) is fine too.

It looks forced. It doesn’t look bad, but it’s not something I would pay for, nor would I give it access to my computer?

I also believe that a small talented group of developers just out of college can do just as good a job. That is why there is no moat around AI, it still comes down to original thinking and talent.

A Chat AI creating on the fly UX widgets is like Amazon’s brick and mortar stores

Is it me or GPT-6 Instant food answer gives the vibe to check the hell out immediately? It's like the it will start to explain a sunny Sunday afternoon from 20 years ago for 5 full pages.

Let's remember.. 'Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on ChatGPT for trip planning'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542814

you can just say "ELI5" and the model will know what you want there or just ELI5

Is there any relationship between this and AG-UI or A2UI?

i saw that and thought the death knell of apps is coming soon as on demand interfaces become a norm

Wait, am I missing something here? Is this just

> you stupid silly human, instructions are hard! Who can read "fold this" and "fold that", when you can instead have interactive short-form content with music and smileys to keep you entertained while you offload all the thinking to AI?

... as a service?

> THE DINNER LEDGER

> The Check, Please.

> TABLE OF FIVE · ITEMIZED BILL

This is one of my _least_ favorite AI behaviors, I am surprised they left it in the example. This behavior where it insists on putting text everywhere that over-explains the context.

for the sunday lamb roast instructions, how much is 1500g of potatoes? What kind of potatoes?

> Also pick up garlic, rosemary, thyme, lemons, honey, almonds, olive oil, gravy ingredients, mint sauce, crumble topping and vanilla ice cream.

what??? how the hell are you supposed to remember all that. Even the before example tells you what kind of potatoes to get. tbh it would be cool if you could just click a button and get an order pre-filled out on a grocery delivery/pickup service. I really wonder who reviewed this post and if they cook, because imagining yourself in that scenario and reading those instructions falls apart very fast

"intelligent UI"

It seems like every week OpenAI adds some new feature to the chat UX that wasn't tested, doesn't work at certain resolutions, doesn't work on some platform/browser combos and hogs all the memory/CPU.

Intelligent UI my ass.

Edit: I should add, features that no one asked for, too.

Instead of apps or websites merely APIs and intelligent UI in front. With the ability to render data gathered across multiple domains

Is the page about intelligent UI made with Intelligent UI? It should be.

First thing to ask is a design teardown of AI Slop images into individual artistic choices.

Jokes aside: always having the right UI on a dataset is a very cool promise and this looks like a leap in that direction.

The interaction is beautiful, reminds me of Brilliant.

Why show an intelligent UI within a chat interface. That’s pathetically lame. Better to go away from chat interfaces to rich visual interfaces. Doesn’t sound intelligent at all to me

I gotta admit, I love how their design system and how they market things. It looks so good. However the true state of their toolings is closer to a burning dumpster fire. If you look at Codex Github repo for example, the amount of existing issues and continuously new issues appearing while tagged releases is being spewed out. Its truly a nightmare. Their vscode extension has been broken for almost 1 week now, if not more. Its instead a community effort to repair it.

This seems like a nightmare for standardization and accessibility, no?

I made a prediction last year that there'd be a new UI protocol (like HTML) but for agents. I believe that custom or personalised UI's are going to be the new browser interface. More radically, I think browsers can be completely replaced. My news feed can be personalised to me, based on what AI thinks might be important from all sources like Reddit, X, HN.

gemini app kind of had that for a while I feel?

It's interesting how the bicycle is a fake example. You see Jony Ive level design, with a very complex 3d object seamlessly working, and then you see the basic HTML slop in other examples and you begin to wonder if that first one was fabeication.

Gemini already does this and I find it pointless. Little interactives seem innovative in practice but generally don't do anything useful.

> "Can't you read? No problem, now you don't have to!"

I wonder if OpenAI will be able to vibe-code a button to toggle this feature off.

Off topic, but you can tell the Sunday Roast image is AI because it makes British food look appetizing :P

sounds like JEV with extra steps

"If you call something intelligent you know what it isn't."

> We’ve trained GPT‑6 to compose responses using text, visuals and interactive elements, choosing how they fit together based on your question.

Ok so this is how you build a moat. Models are not a commodity and visualization isnt a purely harness problem.

> We expanded our training methods to help the model make thoughtful decisions about content, layout, visuals, and interaction. This included evaluating the interfaces it creates for clarity, usefulness, and completeness. GPT‑6 learned to use the component library and make good design decisions, including how to organize information clearly, when to use interactivity, and when a simple text response is enough.

Curious to know how they trained it produce appropriate visuals. And why that cant be done with propmt engineering.

> Our mission is to deliver the benefits of artificial general intelligence safely

extraordinary AGI claims require extraordinary evidence

This looks bad, I want the output to be as much as text based so I can easily export it and further processing it, plus, this might make the resource-eating app even worse.

I read the comments here and I am really surprised by many people. One picture is worth a thousand words so with better UI you can make much better user experiences. This unlocks personal assistants to be better adopted by elderly or disabled people. I see so many benefits of it and having models which can do this (if they can do it constantly with good quality) is amazing. Much better products - I am really tired of dumb chatbot - if I can do something with one button or view the whole information in one diagram/image, this is amazing.

Great, now instead of doing math to split my check I can vibe code an app on the spot to do math to split my check.

"why do I need an Nvidia B300 to render the same webpage that ran fine on my Pentium with Windows 98?"

I truly hope this ushers in the end of Markdown as the preferred AI document format.

It's time to promote an .htmd HTML document standard so that we can actually have nice looking documents again. Remember columns? Colors? Typography? Layouts? Graphic design? Interactivity?

Just think - we could actually have a true rich text standard! Imagine if it were adopted everywhere and you could send WYSIWYG bold, italicized or underlined text as easily as you can a custom skin-colored emoji?

It would almost be like were living in the 21st century again!

There's a type of UI that is very in vogue currently, it's kin of Futuristic UI that laymen find very cool and seeks to appeal to a WOW factor that suggests that the future is now.

I used to see it a lot in China, like the idea of pinching something on one phone and transferring it to another, or identification by showing your palm.

It's also the type of UI you would see in Hollywood movies, both because it's stuff that laymen scriptwriters and directors would find interesteng, but also the audiences would. Like the motion based UI in Minority Report, whatever was in the movie hackers, or that laptop suitcase thing that allows you to deploy nuclear codes or send wires.

I mean, I don't want to be a snob, clearly people like it, at least initially, I think it's outsider art of sorts, of course it will have problems, but it's not less legitimate because of that.

Anyways, this Intelligent UI thing where you ask it how a bike is made and it unravels a hollywood visual report as if it were showing the interiors of the target in a war room conference, it reminds me of that type of futurisitic outsider UI.