
GPT-5.2 is here, and with it, OpenAI wants “to unlock even more economic value for people,” Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of Applications, told reporters in a Thursday briefing. She said it’s been in the works for “many, many months.”
The company calls GPT-5.2 its “best model yet for everyday professional use” in a release, clearly coming for Gemini 3’s current reputation as a premier general-purpose model. OpenAI says the GPT-5.2 model series, which includes the Instant, Thinking, and Pro models, is better at “creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and hand …


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