Overview
- Tom’s Guide’s seven-scenario trial concluded ChatGPT‑5.2 was the clear winner over Claude Opus 4.5 when users needed step‑by‑step, immediately actionable advice.
- Forbes found GPT‑5.2 generated a fully formatted, multi‑tab job‑search spreadsheet ready for Google Sheets, though the response took about 9 minutes 55 seconds, while Gemini and Claude were faster but left more manual work.
- In Tom’s Guide tests, GPT‑5.2 produced working, production‑ready code with error handling and setup instructions, created sophisticated spreadsheet structures, analyzed long documents with citations, and offered usable image‑based organization plans.
- Reviewers noted limitations such as slower generation for complex outputs, incomplete presentation assembly, constrained image understanding, and the continued need to verify legal or financial guidance.
- OpenAI markets GPT‑5.2 as its most capable model for professional knowledge work with improved accuracy and fewer hallucinations, a positioning partially reflected in real‑world trials that emphasized usability over synthetic benchmarks.