The post accompanied an AI-generated image of himself, which was captioned, “most likely to launch an image model”.
This comes days after OpenAI unveiled its latest model, GPT-5.2. The timing is critical for a new model as the AI company has been under pressure from Google’s Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5.
Earlier this month, Altman reportedly declared an internal “code red” to accelerate improvements to ChatGPT to retain its competitive edge. In an internal memo, Altman accepted that Google’s recent successes in AI could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company”. Altman assured colleagues that OpenAI is “catching up fast”, and would emerge on top in the AI race.
The feature is likely to be a consumer-focused image or video editing tool, designed to showcase OpenAI’s multimodal abilities when Google is gaining ground with its Nano Banana updates.
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New model launch
OpenAI unveiled the latest model in its GPT series on December 13, in collaboration with Nvidia and Microsoft. The company claimed major improvements in reasoning, speed, and real-world task performance in GPT-5.2.
Launching shortly after the rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI introduced upgrades to the model. The company claims that the latest version is capable of creating spreadsheets and presentations, writing code, perceiving images, and understanding long contexts.
