OpenAI launched its most advanced ChatGPT model on Thursday, marketing it as its best model for professional assistance.
The announcement of the GPT‑5.2 model comes just over a week after the company issued a “code red” to improve its ChatGPT user experience as chatbot competition increases in the artificial intelligence sector. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted the model as superior in an X post on Thursday.
“It is the smartest generally-available model in the world, and in particular is good at doing real-world knowledge work tasks,” Altman said.
OpenAI said the GPT-5.2 model is better for users’ day-to-day tasks and consists of three plans — Instant, Thinking, and Pro — that generally scale up in depth and quality. Nick Turley, the head of ChatGPT, said the new Thinking model is designed to assist users with practical and professional tasks.
“GPT-5.2 Thinking is designed to help with real, economically valuable tasks — the kind of work professionals do every day: building spreadsheets and presentations, writing and reviewing production code, analyzing long documents, coordinating tools, and executing complex projects from start to finish,” Turley said.
Altman encouraged people to use the model to produce presentation slides, spreadsheets, and code. By marketing it as a day-to-day model, OpenAI answered Altman’s calls to improve the everyday user experience of ChatGPT.
In his “code red,” Altman foreshadowed the release of a new ChatGPT model this week that he said, according to internal statistics, would outperform Google’s groundbreaking Gemini 3 model.
“We announced this code red to really signal to the company that we want to marshal resources in one particular area, and that’s a way to really define priorities and define things that can be deprioritized,” OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told CNBC on Thursday.
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“We have had an increase in resources focused on ChatGPT in general. I would say that helps with the release of this model, but that’s not the reason it’s coming out this week in particular,” Simo said.
OpenAI’s competitors have put pressure on the American modern chatbot pioneer to up its ante this fall. In November, both Google and Anthropic announced their new flagship, advanced models. Altman, in fact, touted Google’s Gemini 3 as “a great model” on X.