Gemini 3 launch had less of an impact on ChatGPT than CEO Sam Altman feared — OpenAI eyes January exit from "code red"

As expected, OpenAI finally launched its rumored GPT-5.2 model on December 11, 2025. CEO Sam Altman declared code red following Google's successful Gemini 3 launch, which blew ChatGPT out of the water across a wide range of benchmark tests.

GPT-5.2 could potentially be OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3 amid rising concerns about ChatGPT's traffic decline. The next-gen AI model ships with a plethora of advanced capabilities across coding, video, and images. Users can access the model directly from ChatGPT or OpenAI's application programming interface (API).

ChatGPT-5.2 ships in three different flavors: Instant, Thinking, and Pro versions. For context, the instant version is designed for writing and research, while the Thinking version takes on complex tasks like coding. As you might have guessed, the Pro version is designed to find responses to difficult questions.

The model already shows great promise. It posted impeccable results across a wide range of benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Pro, which is designed to examine a model's agentic coding performance. It also topped the charts in the GPQA Diamond benchmark text, which is used to evaluate a model's reasoning capabilities.

Perhaps more interestingly, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman indicated that Google's Gemini 3 launch had a lesser impact on ChatGPT's metrics than previously thought (via CNBC). The executive stated that the company is poised to exit its code red by January. “I believe that when a competitive threat happens, you want to focus on it, deal with it quickly,” Altman added.

There has also been an increase in the number of reports claiming that AI could eventually replace humans in the workplace. GPT-5.2 might also secure a spot for itself at the workplace as it beat industry professionals on the GDPval benchmark test with a 70.9% on well-specified tasks.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates indicated that AI will replace humans for most things, but we'll still have the power to choose what to preserve exclusively for ourselves. The philanthropic billionaire joked that no one would like to watch computers playing baseball.

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