From CNET: Last Thursday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT-5.2, which offers better performance across the board. It's also the company's strongest model yet for science and math. In the announcement press release, OpenAI says that people using the latest model for work-related tasks will see the most benefit, not necessarily people who use ChatGPT day-to-day.
"We designed GPT‑5.2 to unlock even more economic value for people," the statement said. "It's better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and handling complex, multi-step projects."
Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent an internal "code red" memo to alert employees about the growing threat from competitors -- specifically Google and its advanced Gemini 3 chatbot, released in November. The move echoes Google's own "code red" memo from a few years ago, sent when ChatGPT launched and captured global 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 also launched GPT-Image Model 1.5, an updated AI image model, on Tuesday to challenge Google's Nano Banana Pro, which currently sits at the top of the list of the best AI image generators at CNET.
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