GPT-5.2 is the OpenAI model the corpus most often uses as the frontier reference point in early 2026; its Thinking, Pro and Codex variants have their own entries. Here it is the model inside OpenAI’s in-house data agent, which helps make the company’s own decisions across 600 petabytes, and the model hobbyists pointed at all 675 open Erdős problems.
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GPT-5.2
OpenAI's frontier model of late 2025, the base of the GPT-5.2 Thinking, Pro and Codex variants and the model behind OpenAI's in-house data agent.
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- Welcome to January 31, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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