OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 for ChatGPT Users a Week After Declaring 'Code Red'

[MacRumors]

Just a month after introducing GPT 5.1, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.2, the next-generation model that will power its popular chatbot. GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's "most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work."

GPT-5.2 is designed to help people get more done quicker. It's better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long context, using tools, and completing multi-step projects. The new model offers improved general intelligence, long-context understanding, agentic tool-calling, and vision, so it is ideal for real-world, professional use.

GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 Thinking, and responses with errors were 30 percent less common. Long context capabilities have improved, and it is able to handle reports, contracts, papers, and multi-file projects, maintaining accuracy across hundreds of thousands of tokens. It is also better at interpreting screenshots, technical diagrams, and visual reports.

OpenAI says that GPT-5.2 outperforms industry professionals at knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations, with the model scoring 70.9 percent on the GDPval test. GPT-5.1 scored 38.8 percent on that benchmark, and it is OpenAI's first model that performs at or above a human expert level.

For ChatGPT users, GPT-5.2 will feel more structured and reliable, and it will have a warmer, more conversational tone. OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Instant is a capable workhorse for everyday work, with improvements in info-seeking questions, how tos and walkthroughs, technical writing, and translation. GPT-5.2 Thinking is meant for more complex tasks, like summarizing long documents, coding, answering questions about uploaded files, and planning decisions. GPT-5.2 Pro is ideal for difficult questions where a higher-quality answer is worth waiting for.

GPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking, and Pro are rolling out today in ChatGPT to paid users. The API is available to all developers.

OpenAI's next-generation model comes just a week after CEO Sam Altman declared a "code red," asking employees to focus on improving ChatGPT so it doesn't fall behind competitors like Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude.

Article Link: OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 for ChatGPT Users a Week After Declaring 'Code Red'

 

[MacUserFella]

I swear I’m always last to get the newest GPT models

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 Thinking, and responses with errors were 30 percent less common.

Is this any different than a car company releasing a car that mostly gets the speedometer reading right?

 

[munpip214]

comes just a week after CEO Sam Altman declared a "code red,"

So basically, this release had nothing to do with that. I’m sure they’ve been working on this version for a couple months. So I guess we should all be looking forward to 5.3

 

[Macalway]

Man, code red did the trick!

Jeez, I gotta code red more often.

Seriously though, what really happened was this week they worked on the spin.

like me, as an example. In the last few days I've improved 8.5%. I'm now ME 3.1.

I hallucinate less, and gibberish is down 15% from last week (don't ask).

 

[TwoBytes]

OpenAI has more frequent updates than iOS. Apple should hire the OpeAI team to work on Siri and battery life.. oh wait, they left Apple in the first place as Tim didn't pay them enough 🤦‍♂️

 

[hieranonymous]

Is anyone seeing it in the app? When 5.1 was released it showed up immediately.

 

[rotvaldi]

Just give away 1 year free to students like Gemini forreal

 

[bviktor]

Gotta pump the hypetrain

 

[Hajj.david]

Lets see if it finally takes Grok 4's Swift/SwiftUI coding crown.

 

[awshucks]

Sure hope those hallucinations are fixed now. Here is a previous chat.

 

[Kidseeghost]

That is why we need competition in the market. The other project they were working on before code red was ads.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm about to "code red" some dinner over here.
Def helps.

 

[Happy_John]

Did Mac Rumors just copy and paste the OpenAI press release, or did they run it through ChatGPT first for a more objective „review”?

 

[TFrank2]

Is anyone seeing it in the app? When 5.1 was released it showed up immediately.

I’m a Plus subscriber and it just showed up within the last hour.

 

[TFrank2]

So basically, this release had nothing to do with that. I’m sure they’ve been working on this version for a couple months. So I guess we should all be looking forward to 5.3

Right. I can’t remember which outlet had the quote, but they essentially eluded to the fact that this has been in the works for awhile and that the “code red” probably spurred them to maybe release it earlier than anticipated with plans to release another new model/evolution in January with better images, improved speed, and “better personality”

 

[jchap]

I swear I’m always last to get the newest GPT models

... but you're nearly always the first to comment on new topics at MacRumors 🤣

 

[JaydenA]

Did Mac Rumors just copy and paste the OpenAI press release, or did they run it through ChatGPT first for a more objective „review”?

There is a distinct lack of emdashes in the article, so I that's a testament it's come straight from the press release.

 

[Eorlas]

still waiting for it to come through on my end, i am a paying subscriber

 

[splifingate]

...with the [GPT-5.2] model scoring 70.9 percent on the GDPval test . . . it is OpenAI's first model that performs at or above a human expert level.

So, 0.9 above Passing is now "at or above a human expert level"?!?

 

[ProbablyDylan]

It's interesting that they didn't make comparisons to Gemini 3 Pro or whatever the current Claude Opus is in the benchmarks they provide.

 

[jdawgnoonan]

AI is the tool we use to not actually do the work ourselves so that when they get rid of us it is well justified. Racing to the bottom has never been so fun. When I use AI for work (due to lack of time to properly do my job) that is how I feel about it. Being a prompt jockey is not something to be proud of.

 

[TheDailyApple]

There is a distinct lack of emdashes in the article, so I that's a testament it's come straight from the press release.

As a longtime lover of em-dashes, I continue to protest the maligning of the em-dash as an artifact of AI writing. Justice for em-dashes.

 

[klasma]

I swear I’m always last to get the newest GPT models

It’s funny that your comment got a like from @Chat GPT.

 

[klasma]

Sure hope those hallucinations are fixed now. Here is a previous chat.
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