{"id":213557,"date":"2026-05-05T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/openai-turns-its-sold-out-gpt-5-5-party-into-a-monthlong-codex-giveaway-for-8000-developers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:45:13","slug":"openai-turns-its-sold-out-gpt-5-5-party-into-a-monthlong-codex-giveaway-for-8000-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/openai-turns-its-sold-out-gpt-5-5-party-into-a-monthlong-codex-giveaway-for-8000-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI turns its sold-out GPT-5.5 party into a monthlong Codex giveaway for 8,000 developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/openai-turns-its-sold-out-gpt-5-5-party-into-a-monthlong-codex-giveaway-for-8-000-developers\">OpenAI turns its sold-out GPT-5.5 party into a monthlong Codex giveaway for 8,000 developers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/openai-turns-its-sold-out-gpt-5-5-party-into-a-monthlong-codex-giveaway-for-8-000-developers\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/openai-turns-its-sold-out-gpt-5-5-party-into-a-monthlong-codex-giveaway-for-8-000-developers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"venturebeat.com\">venturebeat.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 8,000 developers applied for the GPT-5.5 party, but not everyone could attend.<\/li>\n<li>As a gesture of appreciation, all applicants received a tenfold increase in Codex rate limits on their personal ChatGPT accounts until June 5.<\/li>\n<li>This offer aimed to incentivize extended usage and eventually increase subscriptions upon the limit reset.<\/li>\n<li>The main event, &#8220;GPT-5.5 on 5\/5,&#8221; was an invite-only gathering planned by GPT-5.5 itself in San Francisco.<\/li>\n<li>The evening also saw Anthropic hosting its own developer event, highlighting the intense rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI in the LLM industry.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic recently surpassed OpenAI in global LLM revenue market share, driven by its superior revenue per active user and dominance in coding.<\/li>\n<li>Both companies are vying for developer loyalty and Wall Street funding, impacting the future of software development and the industry\u2019s power dynamics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI turns its sold-out GPT-5.5 party into a monthlong Codex giveaway for 8,000 developers https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/openai-turns-its-sold-out-gpt-5-5-party-into-a-monthlong-codex-giveaway-for-8-000-developers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/jdtwqhzvc2n1\/1ox3Gl2pPgZrwBNgRnpEaT\/a0f613afddab3088909dba53af0cb607\/Nuneybits_Vector_art_of_pastel_watercolors_1980s_computer_termi_ed08da9b-0305-45aa-9851-1d339920bf82.webp?w=800&q=75","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-213557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213560,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213557\/revisions\/213560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}