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Amanda Caswell

OpenAI's newest model just solved a crossword with zero clues — and it's a huge deal for the future of AI

Crosswod.

AI had gotten so much better at reasoning and simply handling our questions. But, what's much harder is solving a problem where every answer depends on dozens of other answers — and a single mistake can throw off the entire solution.

That's why a new demonstration of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro caught my attention this week. AI researcher Riley Goodside shared what looks like one of the most unusual reasoning tests I've seen: an empty crossword puzzle created by Claude Fable 5 Max, containing the first 150 Pokemon. But the catch is that ChatGPT wasn't given a single numbered clue.

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