This morning, OpenAI released the company’s new GPT-5.2 model.

If you’re a coder or someone who follows AI benchmarks for fun (hey, I won’t judge), this model will excite you tremendously.

For everyone else, prepare to be underwhelmed—or rather, prepare to wait another month or so for the real OpenAI new release to come out.

Keeping up with the Joneses

GPT-5.2 is fundamentally about making small tweaks and improvements to the already fairly new GPT-5.1 model.

Today’s release improves OpenAI’s performance on a variety of industry benchmarks. GPT-5.2 is faster and more efficient than its predecessor, and it does a better job solving scientific and technical problems.

In particular, it’s better at writing code and doing math, and performs better on so-called agentic tasks, where the mod

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