OpenAI on Thursday announced GPT-5.2, just a month after its last ChatGPT update and amid intense competition from Google's Gemini 3. Why it matters: The update follows reports of a "Code Red" scramble inside OpenAI and highlights the intensely competitive nature of the chatbot market.

OpenAI just launched GPT-5.2, a frontier model aimed at developers and professionals, pushing reasoning and coding benchmarks as it races Google’s Gemini 3 while grappling with compute costs and no generator.

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 new model will start rolling out immediately. Credit: Photographed by Joseph Maldonado / Mashable Composite by Rene Ramos OpenAI announced today that it's launching GPT-5.2, the newest model in its GPT-5 series. The new model will start rolling out ...

OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago.

The CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman is in the newborn parenting trenches with husband Oliver Mulherin, and he's turning to an unlikely source of support: his own OpenAI chatbot. In an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this week,