OpenAI aims to silence concerns it is falling behind in the AI race with release of new model GPT-5.2

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 be 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.