Overview
- Microsoft confirmed GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2‑chat are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry for enterprise use.
- OpenAI began rolling the model family to paid ChatGPT plans on December 11 with API endpoints including gpt-5.2, gpt-5.2-chat-latest, and gpt-5.2-pro.
- Foundry published per‑million‑token pricing, listing GPT‑5.2 Standard Global at $1.75 for input, $0.175 for cached input, and $14.00 for output, with higher rates in U.S. data zones.
- The GPT‑5.2 series adds deeper multi‑step reasoning, long‑context planning, and agentic execution that can generate design docs, runnable code, tests, and deployment scripts with fewer iterations.
- Vendors report strong benchmark gains over GPT‑5.1 across knowledge work, coding, tool use, and long‑context tasks, with enterprise controls such as managed identities and policy enforcement emphasized in Foundry.