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 company calls GPT-5.2 its "best model yet for every day professional use" in a release, clearly coming for Gemini 3's current reputation as a premier general-purpose model. OpenAI says the GPT-5.2 model series, which includes the Instant, Thinking, and Pro models, is better at "creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and hand … Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less