GPT-5.5 Autonomously Spent 150+ Hours Improving Protein Folding Models — Reddit Buzzes Over Autonomous Scientific Research
r/singularityvia @chrishayduk·high signal
A viral r/singularity post (579 upvotes) shared a screenshot from researcher Chris Hayduk showing GPT-5.5 autonomously running for over 150 hours to improve protein folding models without human intervention. This extends the earlier GPT-5/Ginkgo Bioworks protein synthesis work into GPT-5.5's long-horizon agentic capabilities, demonstrating the model can sustain multi-day autonomous scientific research loops — exactly the use case OpenAI designed GPT-5.5 for.