Just look at the incredible 3D ocean wave simulation GPT-5.2 created:
It generated all these 3D elements from scratch for the app:
Look what happens when we adjust one of the settings -- like the height of the ocean waves:
And all this from a single prompt mind you.
This is huge.
Barely a month after the last GPT upgrade from OpenAI and another one is already here.
Google has been at their neck non-stop with major AI upgrade after upgrade -- so this is no time to mess around and be complacent.
This model isn’t trying to be a fun novelty — it’s aiming to be a serious coworker with more structured responses.
A sophisticated typing game from a single GPT-5.2 prompt:
If GPT-5.1 is a sharp assistant then GPT-5.2 is someone you could actually hand a complex project to and expect them to deliver a full, coherent draft back.
What GPT-5.2 actually is
It comes in three main flavors inside ChatGPT:
Instant — the fast, “answer my question now” mode
Thinking — slows down to reason, plan, calculate, and work through multi-step tasks
Pro — the heavyweight, tuned for tough math, science, coding, and research problems
Everything under the hood is upgraded: its reasoning is stronger, its responses are more grounded, and it’s noticeably more consistent on tasks where earlier models sometimes drifted or hallucinated.
Where it genuinely improves
One of the big demos OpenAI pushes is how GPT-5.2 performs on actual knowledge-work tasks — things like building spreadsheets, creating financial models, drafting slides, writing briefs, planning events, or summarizing huge reports.
GPT-5.2 Thinking reportedly matches or outperforms human experts on most tasks, and it does the work far faster. The difference is visible in everyday use: when you ask it for something complex, it now knows how to structure the work instead of just giving a surface-level answer.
Coding
On software engineering benchmarks, GPT-5.2 sets a new high score. It fixes bugs more reliably, handles multi-file reasoning better, and performs more stable refactors. Developers online who use tools like…
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