OpenAI launches ChatGPT 5.2 to compete with Google Gemini 3: New tools, smarter performance and major upgrades explained

OpenAI has released ChatGPT 5.2, designed to rival Google Gemini 3, featuring enhanced tools, improved performance, and significant upgrades that boost efficiency and capability across multiple tasks.

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OpenAI’s latest release, ChatGPT-5.2, arrives with significant upgrades across multiple functions. The updated model delivers stronger performance when generating spreadsheets, preparing presentations, producing code, examining images, and handling lengthy or complicated assignments. It also manages multi-step workflows more smoothly thanks to improved tool-handling capabilities.

ChatGPT-5.2 rollout:

The rollout of the model is being done gradually rather than all at once. Paid subscribers who haven’t received access yet will need to wait a little longer. Meanwhile, ChatGPT 5.1 will remain available to paid users for three more months as a legacy option, after which OpenAI will transition fully to ChatGPT 5.2.

“Overall, GPT‑5.2 brings significant improvements in general intelligence, long-context understanding, agentic tool-calling, and vision—making it better at executing complex, real-world tasks end-to-end than any previous model,” the company said in a statement.

The newest GPT release shows notable advancements in handling coding and technical tasks over its predecessors. This version excels at identifying errors in code, creating software, and executing complex technical assignments more effectively than earlier models.

GPT‑5.2 Thinking achieves a new benchmark of 55.6% on SWE-Bench Pro:

GPT‑5.2 Thinking achieves a new benchmark of 55.6% on SWE-Bench Pro, a comprehensive test designed to evaluate practical software engineering skills. Unlike SWE-Bench Verified, which focuses solely on Python, SWE-Bench Pro assesses performance across four programming languages and is built to be more resistant to prior exposure, more challenging, diverse, and aligned with real-world industrial applications.

Why It Matters

GPT-5.2 aims to boost productivity by enabling users to achieve more in work and creative projects. With improved reasoning, coding, long-term task management, and tool-use capabilities, it stands out as one of the most powerful AI tools available today.

This article was first uploaded on December twelve, twenty twenty-five, at forty-eight minutes past ten in the morning.