Aidan Clark, a VP of research at OpenAI, said in the briefing that the team gave a senior immunology researcher access to GPT-5.2 Pro. He said that when the researcher asked the model to generate the most important unanswered questions about the immune system, they said it produced \u201csharper questions and stronger explanations\u201d for why those questions matter than any other frontier model.<\/p>\n
In the blog post, OpenAI also said GPT-5.2 is better for AI agents\u2019 workflows \u2014 part of the ever-intensifying battle between AI companies to offer the most efficient and useful AI agents<\/a>. The vision is for ChatGPT to be the best possible \u201cpersonalized assistant,\u201d Max Schwarzer, a researcher at OpenAI, said during the briefing.<\/p>\n The company also said its Thinking model \u201challucinates less\u201d than its predecessor, making sure to highlight that the distinction makes it more useful for professionals looking for trustworthy agentic AI tools. Notion, Box, Shopify, Harvey, Zoom, and Databricks were among the pre-release testers, and they received access a couple of weeks ago, per OpenAI.<\/p>\n GPT-5.2\u2019s release comes less than a month after OpenAI debuted GPT-5.1<\/a>. For that series, OpenAI largely focused on making the models \u201cwarmer\u201d and \u201cmore enjoyable\u201d to talk to, including personality presets that gave users control over chatbot tone. GPT-5.2, OpenAI said in the blog post, builds on those tone shifts: \u201cUsers should notice GPT-5.2 feels better to use day to day\u2014more structured, more reliable, and still enjoyable to talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n The company has been grappling with Google\u2019s recent gains in the AI space and reportedly<\/a> plans to introduce two new models, one of which is codenamed Garlic, next year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly called for a \u201ccode red\u201d<\/a> last week in an internal memo, saying he would delay certain initiatives, like advertising, in favor of making improvements to ChatGPT. During Thursday\u2019s briefing, Simo said she had nothing further to share on advertising timelines.<\/p>\n \u201cWe announced this code red to really signal to the company that we want to marshal resources in this one particular area,\u201d Simo said during the briefing.<\/p>\n The GPT-5.2 announcement also came the same day as news broke that OpenAI had struck a three-year licensing deal<\/a> with Disney to allow \u201cuser-prompted social videos\u201d that feature more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars. As part of the deal, Disney will make some of those videos available to stream on Disney Plus \u2014 and become a \u201cmajor customer\u201d of OpenAI, alongside a $1 billion equity investment in the AI company.<\/p>\n In its blog post, OpenAI said the company is also in the \u201cearly stages\u201d of rolling out its age-prediction model, which is intended to auto-apply certain safeguards for minors. During the briefing, Simo said the company is beginning an early rollout in certain countries to test how well it could identify teens \u201cand not mis-identify adults,\u201d and that they wanted to do that before introducing ChatGPT\u2019s \u201cadult mode\u201d \u2014 a feature she said she expects to launch in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n The new GPT-5.2 models will roll out today within ChatGPT, starting with OpenAI\u2019s paid plans (ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Go, Business, and Enterprise). But the company said in the blog post that it would be deploying it \u201cgradually\u201d to keep the chatbot experience as \u201csmooth and reliable\u201d as possible. GPT-5.1, its predecessor, will be available to paid users under the \u201clegacy models\u201d dropdown menu for three months before the company sunsets it.<\/p>\n Follow topics and authors<\/strong> from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.<\/p>\n Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n FollowFollow<\/p>\n See All by Hayden Field<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n FollowFollow<\/p>\n See All AI<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n FollowFollow<\/p>\n\n
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