OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 in what appears to be its answer to Google's Gemini 3.0. According to OpenAI GPT-5.2 is its most advanced mode for work and long-running agents.
The company leaned into the productivity case for GPT-5.2. In a blog post, OpenAI said:
"We designed GPT‑5.2 to unlock even more economic value for people; it’s better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and handling complex, multi-step projects."
OpenAI touted the usual benchmarks for GPT-5.2 improvements, but it's notable that it is also using its GDPval benchmark too. GDPval looks at how models perform in knowledge work in 44 occupations.
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With the positioning of GPT-5.2, OpenAI is clearly making the return on investment case for its latest foundational model as it competes with Google and Anthropic. Microsoft said it has added GPT-5.2 to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot.
"GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties top industry professionals on 70.9% of comparisons on GDPval knowledge work tasks, according to expert human judges. These tasks include making presentations, spreadsheets, and other artifacts. GPT‑5.2 Thinking produced outputs for GDPval tasks at >11x the speed and <1% the cost of expert professionals," said OpenAI.
The compare and contrast of the GPT-5.2 vs GPT-5.1 models is worth noting.
The upshot here is that OpenAI is pivoting on real world tasks for judging models. Perhaps, OpenAI is tired of ceding the corporate use cases to Anthropic's Claude.
As for the rollout, OpenAI said:
"In ChatGPT, we’ll begin rolling out GPT‑5.2 (Instant, Thinking, and Pro) today, starting with paid plans (Plus, Pro, Go, Business, Enterprise). We deploy GPT‑5.2 gradually to keep ChatGPT as smooth and reliable as we can; if you don’t see it at first, please try again later. In ChatGPT, GPT‑5.1 will still be available to paid users for three months under legacy models, after which we will sunset GPT‑5.1."
