OpenAI has announced the release of its new frontier large language model (LLM) family, GPT-5.2. The AI pioneer has faced intensifying pressure since rival Google’s Gemini 3 LLM seized the top spot on major third-party performance leaderboards and many key benchmarks last month. OpenAI describes GPT-5.2 as its "most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work," aiming to reclaim the performance crown with significant gains in reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows.
GPT-5.2 comes with improvements in general intelligence, coding and long-context understanding, the company said in a statement. The new model is expected to bring even more economic value for users, as it is better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations and handling complex multi-step projects, OpenAI said.
Alphabet's Google launched the latest version of its Gemini in November, highlighting Gemini 3's lead position on several popular industry leaderboards that measure AI model performance.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI said that it currently has no plans to drop GPT-5.1, GPT-5, or GPT-4.1 from its application programming interface. GPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking, and Pro will begin rolling out in ChatGPT on Thursday, beginning with paid plans.
As part of another development, Disney said on Thursday that it is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will let the startup use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel franchises in its Sora AI video generator.
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