OpenAI Says New AI Model GPT-5.2 Unlocks ‘Even More Economic Value’

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5.2, saying the new model is designed for professional knowledge work and unlocks “even more economic value for people.”

GPT-5.2 is better than its predecessors at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools and handling multistep projects, the company said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) press release.

“GPT-5.2 sets a new state of the art across many benchmarks, including GDPval, where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations,” the release said.

The model is available in Instant, for everyday work and learning; Thinking, for deeper work; and Pro, for “questions where a higher-quality answer is worth the wait,” per the release.

GPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking and Pro began rolling out in ChatGPT on Thursday, starting with paid plans, and they are available now to all developers in the application programming interface, according to the release.

OpenAI released a report Monday (Dec. 8) that found that 75% of workers said that using AI at work has improved either the speed or quality of their output.

Workers said they were saving 40 to 60 minutes each day, with “heavy users” saying they were saving upwards of 10 hours a week.

“Crucially, AI is not just helping people do the same work faster — it is enabling people to do new kinds of work,” the company said in a press release.

It was reported Dec. 2 that OpenAI delayed some products and declared a “code red” related to the need to bolster ChatGPT after rivals Google and Anthropic unveiled new AI models that surpassed GPT-5 on certain industry benchmarks.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an internal memo that the company would redouble its efforts to improve the speed, reliability and personalization of its chatbot and that it would hold off on other products as “we are at a critical time for ChatGPT.”

PYMNTS reported Nov. 25 that major AI releases from Google and Anthropic landed less than a week apart in November. Google introduced Gemini 3, presenting the model as a major step forward in multimodal reasoning and visual understanding, while Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.5, saying the model outperformed every human candidate on its internal engineering assessment.