GPT-5.2 is here! Available today in ChatGPT and the API.
It is the smartest generally-available model in the world, and in particular is good at doing real-world knowledge work tasks.
Turn on agent mode and ChatGPT can take action for you—research, plan, and get things done while you browse.
Now in preview for Plus, Pro, and Business users.
By 2026, AI systems will likely start making small scientific discoveries on their own.
By 2028, they might make big ones, the kind that change how we understand the world.
If we use AI to speed up discovery and share the results widely, we can make huge progress for humanity.
Yesterday we did a livestream. TL;DR:
We have set internal goals of having an automated AI research intern by September of 2026 running on hundreds of thousands of GPUs, and a true automated AI researcher by March of 2028. We may totally fail at this goal, but given the extraordinary potential impacts we think it is in the public interest to be transparent about this.
We have a safety strategy that relies on 5 layers: Value alignment, Goal alignment, Reliability, Adversarial robustness, and System safety. Chain-of-thought faithfulness is a tool we are particularly excited about, but it somewhat fragile and requires drawing a boundary and a clear abstraction.
On the product side, we are trying to move towards a true platform, where people and companies building on top of our offerings will capture most of the value. Today people can build on our API and apps in ChatGPT; eventually, we want to offer an AI cloud that enables huge businesses.
We have currently committed to about 30 gigawatts of compute, with a total cost of ownership over the years of about $1.4 trillion. We are comfortable with this given what we see on the horizon for model capability growth and revenue growth. We would like to do more—we would like to build an AI factory that can make 1 gigawatt per week of new capacity, at a greatly reduced cost relative to today—but that will require more confidence in future models, revenue, and technological/financial innovation.
Our new structure is much simpler than our old one. We have a non-profit called OpenAI Foundation that governs a Public Benefit Corporation called OpenAI Group. The foundation initially owns 26% of the PBC, but it can increase with warrants over time if the PBC does super well. The PBC can attract the resources needed to achieve the mission.
Our mission, for both our non-profit and PBC, remains the same: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
The nonprofit is initially committing $25 billion to health and curing disease, and AI resilience (all of the things that could help society have a successful transition to a post-AGI world, including technical safety but also things like economic impact, cyber security, and much more). The nonprofit now has the ability to actually deploy capital relatively quickly, unlike before.
In 2026 we expect that our AI systems may be able to make small new discoveries; in 2028 we could be looking at big ones. This is a really big deal; we think that science, and the institutions that let us widely distribute the fruits of science, are the most important ways that quality of life improves over time.
I’ve learned that scientists and AI researchers often see superintelligence as an AI system that could far surpass human intelligence. I imagine it as something that could keep improving itself, leading to extremely rapid progress, what some call an “intelligence explosion.”
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.
Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.
In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).
In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
This partnership represents a major step toward making AI a trusted, sovereign, and productivity-boosting tool for Germany’s government and public institutions, while also advancing Germany’s leadership in digital transformation and AI adoption across Europe.
OpenAI, SAP & Microsoft are launching OpenAI for Germany—a partnership to bring frontier AI to Germany’s public sector, through a sovereign, certified cloud environment.
Built on SAP’s Delos Cloud and running on Microsoft Azure, this new initiative will help employees across German governments, administrations and research institutions use our technology to spend more time on people, not paperwork.
https://t.co/6gzpUPD1Gt
AI is advancing so quickly that building huge amounts of computer power is essential to unlock its full potential.
With the right infrastructure, AI could help solve humanity’s biggest challenges
like curing diseases and improving education for everyone.
The mission is ambitious and difficult, but if achieved, it could become one of the most important projects of our time.
OpenAI & NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10GW of NVIDIA Systems
This enables OpenAI to build & deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters with NVIDIA systems representing millions of GPUs for OpenAI’s next-gen AI infrastructure.
https://t.co/2xG0mBs6pU
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I’m really excited to share that our @OpenAI reasoning system got a perfect score of 12/12 during the 2025 ICPC World Finals, the premier collegiate programming competition where top university teams from around the world solve complex algorithmic problems. This would have placed it first among all human participants. 🥇🥇