OpenAI just launched GPT-5.2, a frontier model aimed at developers and professionals, pushing reasoning and coding benchmarks as it races Google’s Gemini 3 while grappling with compute costs and no generator.

OpenAI on Monday confirmed that it has appointed Albert Lee, senior director of corporate development at Google, as its vice president of corporate development.

A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition.

The new chatbot model, called GPT-5.2, has improved from previous versions in building spreadsheets and presentations, coding, “perceiving images,” processing longer contexts and “handling complex, multistep projects,” OpenAI said.

Amazon is in talks to invest in OpenAI in a potential deal that could value the ChatGPT-parent at over $500 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. The potential deal underscores the AI industry's insatiable need for computing power as firms race to develop systems that match or surpass human intelligence.

Launched amid fierce competition from Google's new agent, this update aims to make AI more useful, reliable, and impactful for everyday users, developers, and enterprises alike.

For the first time, developers can embed Google's Deep Research tool, based on Gemini 3 Pro, into their own apps.

OpenAI, Google and Perplexity have begun an unprecedented fight for artificial intelligence users in India, rolling out freebies in a strategy seen as a way to harvest troves of multilingual training data in the world's most populous nation.

The threat of legal action from Disney against Google comes as the company announces a partnership with OpenAI.