Last Thursday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT-5.2, which offers better performance across the board. It also belongs to the company strongest model more for science and math. In the announcement press release, OpenAI says that people who use the latest model for work-related tasks will see the most benefit, not necessarily people who use ChatGPT daily.

“We designed GPT-5.2 to unlock more economic value for people,” the statement said. “It’s better at creating spreadsheets, creating presentations, writing code, recognizing images, understanding high context, using tools, and managing complex, multi-step projects.”

Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent a internal “code red” memo to alert employees about the growing threat from competitors — specifically Google and its advanced Gemini 3 chatbot, released last November. The movement reverberated Google’s own “code red” memo from a few years ago, sent when ChatGPT was launched and got worldwide attention. In just a few short years, the roles have reversed: Each company now sees the other as its main rival in the AI ​​race.

Open AI was also launched GPT-Image Model 1.5an updated AI image model, on Tuesday to challenge Nano Banana Pro by Googlewhich is currently at the top of the list best AI image generators on CNET.

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There are three models of GPT-5.2. GPT‑5.2 Instant is designed to be fast and helpful in daily activities. GPT‑5.2 Thinking is the most advanced version of GPT‑5.2 for professional, real-world tasks. And OpenAI says that GPT-5.2 Pro is “our smartest and most reliable model, for difficult questions where a higher quality answer is worth the wait.” OpenAI says the entire ChatGPT-5.2 family provides meaningful upgrades from previous versions for work and learning.

For developers, ChatGPT-5.2 is designed to be a strong model for building agents, thanks to improvements in general intelligence, long-term context understanding, agent calling tool and vision. (In AI and software development, “agents” are AI systems that see information, such as user inputs, reason what to do, and then act, such as run code or operate software.)

The latest model of ChatGPT began its rollout on Thursday, starting with paid plans, and is now available to all developers.