OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s “Code Red” declaration earlier this month seemed fairly mild in the face of the dramatic language used by Altman to reportedly fret about Google Gemini’s ascendance in an internal, company-wide memo.

ChatGPT 5.2, which launched to users on December 11, has been hyped as, ostensibly, a response to Gemini and fallout from the Code Red memo. AI updates are planned fairly far in advance, and I’d wager since before that memo went out, but then again who knows how long before the Code Red memo OpenAI has been fretting about Gemini.

what’s improved

Naming convention for generative AI model updates isn’t all that different from those of operating systems and other pieces of software. Increasing numbers after the decimal (5.1, 5.2, etc.) are for relatively minor updates,

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