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 everyday 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.