OpenAI has released the latest GPT-5.2 version! This version brings significant improvements in general intelligence, long-context understanding, agents, and vision. - The model performs better in creating spreadsheets, designing presentations, coding, image recognition, understanding long-text contexts, using tools, and handling complex multi-step projects. - GPT-5.2 has set new industry benchmarks in various tests, including GDPval. In this evaluation, it outperformed industry experts in explicit knowledge-based tasks across 44 professions. - GPT-5.2 Thinking achieved a new score of 55.6% on the SWE-bench Pro test. SWE-bench Pro is a rigorous benchmark for evaluating real-world software engineering capabilities. Unlike SWE-bench Verified, which only tests Python, SWE-bench Pro covers four languages and is designed to be more robust, challenging, diverse, and closer to real industrial scenarios. - GPT-5.2 Thinking also surpasses GPT-5.1 Thinking in front-end software engineering. Early testers found it stronger in front-end development and complex or unconventional UI tasks (especially in scenarios involving 3D elements). - GPT-5.2 Thinking sets a new technical benchmark in long-context reasoning. - In real-world tasks, such as deep document analysis (requiring the correlation of information across hundreds of thousands of tokens), GPT-5.2 Thinking demonstrates significantly higher accuracy than GPT-5.1 Thinking. - GPT-5.2 Thinking is the most powerful visual model to date, drastically reducing error rates in chart reasoning and software interface understanding—by about half. **GPT-5.2 in ChatGPT** - GPT-5.2 Instant is an efficient and powerful “go-to model” for daily work and learning, with significant improvements in information retrieval, how-to guides, step-by-step explanations, technical writing, and translation. It continues the warmer, more natural conversational style of GPT-5.1 Instant. Early testers particularly noted its clearer explanations and ability to present key information right from the start. - GPT-5.2 Thinking is designed for deeper work, helping users handle complex tasks with higher completion rates. It excels in coding, long-document summarization, answering questions about uploaded files, step-by-step reasoning for math and logic problems, and supporting planning and decision-making with clearer structures and more useful details. - GPT-5.2 Pro is the smartest and most reliable choice for tackling high-difficulty problems, especially in scenarios requiring high-quality answers. Early testing shows it makes fewer major errors and performs exceptionally well in complex fields like programming.