"OpenAI, under increasing competitive pressure from Google and Anthropic, has debuted a new AI model, GPT-5.2, that it says beats all existing models by a substantial margin across a wide range of tasks.The new model, which is being released less than a month after OpenAI debuted its predecessor, GPT-5.1, performed particularly well on a benchmark of complicated professional tasks across a range of "knowledge work"-from law to accounting to finance-as well as on evaluations involving coding and mathematical reasoning, according to data OpenAI released."
"Fidji Simo, the former InstaCart CEO who now serves as OpenAI's CEO of applications, told reporters that the model should not been seen as a direct response to Google's Gemini 3 Pro AI model, which was released last month. That release prompted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to issue a "code red," delaying the rollout of several initiatives in order to focus more staff and computing resources on improving its core product, ChatGPT."
""I would say that [the Code Red] helps with the release of this model, but that's not the reason it is coming out this week in particular, it has been in the works for a while," she said.She said the company had been building GPT-5.2 "for many months." "We don't turn around these models in just a week. It's the result of a lot of work," she said. The model had been known internally by the code name "Garlic," according to a story in The Information. The day before the model's release Altman teased its imminent rollout by posting to social media a video clip of him cooking a dish with a large amount of garlic. OpenAI executives said that the model had been in the hands of "Alpha customers" who help test its performance for "several weeks"-a time period that would mean the model was completed prior to Altman's "code red" declaration.These testers included legal AI startup Harvey, note-taking app Notion, and file-ma"
OpenAI released GPT-5.2 less than a month after GPT-5.1 and reports substantial improvements across diverse tasks. The model achieved strong results on benchmarks of complex professional tasks spanning law, accounting, and finance, and on coding and mathematical reasoning evaluations. The release follows competitive pressure from Google and Anthropic and occurred around an internal "code red" that shifted staff and compute toward improving ChatGPT. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.2 was developed over many months under the internal codename "Garlic" and was tested by Alpha customers, including Harvey and Notion, for several weeks prior to release.
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