> One engineer at NVIDIA who had early access to the model went as far as to say: "Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.”

That's a wild statement to put into your announcement. Are LLM providers now openly bragging about our collective dependency on their models?

A company (or person working for a company) claiming "I/Person X now cannot live without product Y" must be as old as marketing itself.

> That's a wild statement to put into your announcement. Are LLM providers now openly bragging about our collective dependency on their models?

It's normal that company brags how good their product is, I really don't see what's wild about this statement.