OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2 Amid Intensifying Competition from Anthropic and Google

Summary

OpenAI released GPT-5.2 on December 11, 2025, describing it as the company's most capable AI model to date, with improved performance in building spreadsheets and presentations, interpreting images, writing software, and managing long, complex inputs. The release came just weeks after GPT-5.1, reflecting an accelerating cadence of model releases. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman noted that Google's Gemini 3 release had less impact on OpenAI's user metrics than initially feared, while an OpenAI executive em