Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled “Transforming Business through AI” in Tokyo, Japan, on February 03, 2025.
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OpenAI on Thursday announced its most advanced artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.2, and said it’s the best offering yet for everyday professional use.
The model is better than predecessors at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, perceiving images, writing code and understanding long context, OpenAI said. It will be available starting Thursday within OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and its application programming interface (API).
The announcement comes weeks after OpenAI launched its GPT-5.1 model. Rivals Anthropic and Google also launched new models last month, prompting OpenAI to declare a “code red” effort to improve ChatGPT and sideline other projects.
“We announced this code red to really signal to the company that we want to martial resources in one particular area, and that’s a way to really define priorities and define things that can be deprioritized,” Fidji Simo, CEO of applications at OpenAI, told reporters in a briefing on Thursday. “We have had an increase in resources focused on ChatGPT in general, I would say that helps with the release of this model, but that’s not the reason it’s coming out this week in particular.”
OpenAI said GPT-5.2 will be available in Instant, Thinking and Pro versions. Instant is faster at writing and information seeking, Thinking is better at structured work like coding and planning and Pro will deliver the most accurate answers for difficult questions, OpenAI said.
“This has been in the works for many, many months,” Simo said. “While we are proud that we are able to have a cadence of releasing models fast, this particular integration has been in the works for a while.”
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