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Two API Settings Tripled GPT-5.6's Score on a Major AI Benchmark — Here's How

OpenAI News·Thursday, 30 July 2026
Two API Settings Tripled GPT-5.6's Score on a Major AI Benchmark — Here's How

OpenAI found that enabling two specific API settings — retaining reasoning and enabling compaction — tripled GPT-5.6's scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. The changes also improved efficiency. This is a practical, repeatable finding any developer using the API can act on.

Why It Matters

If you build with OpenAI's API, these two settings could dramatically improve your results without changing your prompts or paying more. That's a real, immediate skill upgrade.

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