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ChatGPT's Default Model Just Switched to GPT-5.5 Instant
2026.05.06 · 133 readersHey, it's the Carat team. 🤗
Today: ChatGPT's default model swap, Claude's personal assistant leak, the AI drama trend in China, and a prompt tip for making baseball stadium photos.
Today: ChatGPT's default model swap, Claude's personal assistant leak, the AI drama trend in China, and a prompt tip for making baseball stadium photos.
🔥 ChatGPT's Default Model Just Switched to GPT-5.5 Instant
ChatGPT's default model has been replaced with GPT-5.5 Instant. It's rolling out to all users within 2 days.
Three things changed. First, factual accuracy for medical, legal, and financial questions improved significantly. Second, conversations feel much more natural. Third, it remembers previous conversations better and gives more personalized answers.
Just a week after GPT-5.5 launched, a lighter version became the default model. OpenAI is aggressively pushing the latest models to all users as fast as possible. For regular users, you get a better AI without doing anything.
📌 Three Things Today
1️⃣ Claude Now Handles Finance Tasks Automatically
Anthropic released Claude finance agent templates. They automatically handle investment pitch writing, company valuation analysis, and month-end closing.
Connect via Claude Code plugin and it reads Excel data, analyzes it, and generates reports. The community response has been explosive.
2️⃣ AI Short Dramas Are Exploding in China
50,000 AI micro-dramas were uploaded to Douyin (China's TikTok) just last month. Actors do minimal acting in front of a blue screen, then AI generates the entire background and special effects. Epic battle scenes that used to require hundreds of people can now be made by small teams.
Production costs have dropped to one-tenth of traditional methods. 1-3 minute short dramas are establishing themselves as an entirely new content genre. You can try making AI dramas on Carat too. Start with the Seedance 2.0 Prompt Generator.
3️⃣ Claude Becoming a Personal Assistant? Orbit Leaked
A project called Claude Orbit was leaked from inside Anthropic. It's a personal assistant that connects Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Calendar, and Figma, proactively suggesting insights.
Not officially launched yet, but it shows Anthropic's direction of turning Claude from a simple chatbot into 'a hub connecting all your work tools.'
🧪 Prompt Tip of the Day
Make a Photo That Looks Like You Were Caught on a Stadium Camera
Making photos that look like you were accidentally caught by a baseball broadcast camera is trending. Some posts have already hit 8 million views. On Carat, set ChatGPT Images 2.0, upload your photo, and paste the prompt below.
Use the uploaded reference image as the strongest identity anchor. The person must look like the exact same person from the reference image.
Preserve their exact facial identity with high priority: same face shape, same eyes, same nose, same lips, same skin tone, same expression style, same hair.
Create an ultra-realistic candid KBO baseball broadcast screenshot of this person accidentally caught by a live TV camera in the spectator seats.
Important:
Their face should remain close to the reference image. Do not change them into another person.
They are seated among a lively Korean baseball crowd, holding an iced drink and a cheering stick, wearing a clean white baseball jersey over a casual top. They notice the camera and give a small natural smile, slightly surprised but composed.
Use a realistic broadcast camera look:
telephoto compression, mild video softness, slight motion blur in the crowd, stadium lighting, natural skin texture, imperfect candid framing, 16:9 horizontal TV broadcast composition.
Background: crowded Korean baseball stadium seats, cheering fans, bright stadium lights, LED boards softly out of focus.
Try it yourself on Carat.
That's all for today. See you tomorrow with more updates. ☺️