GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle

GPT-5.2 is here, and with it, OpenAI wants “to unlock even more economic value for people,” Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of Applications, told reporters in a Thursday briefing. She said it’s been in the works for “many, many months.”

The company calls GPT-5.2 its “best model yet for everyday professional use” in a release, clearly coming for Gemini 3’s current reputation as a premier general-purpose model. OpenAI says the GPT-5.2 model series, which includes the Instant, Thinking, and Pro models, is better at “creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and handling complex, multi-step projects.” — Read More

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Disney Inks Blockbuster $1B Deal With OpenAI, Handing Characters Over To Sora

Disney has put its chips in on AI.

The Hollywood giant has signed a major deal with OpenAI, investing $1B in the artificial intelligence giant and handing over characters from Frozen and Star Wars to generative AI video app Sora.

It is comfortably the most significant collaboration between a Hollywood studio and an AI company to date, and suggests Disney has taken the view: if you can’t beat them, join them. — Read More

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Space-Based Data Centers

We have just used the

@Nvidia H100 onboard Starcloud-1 to train the first LLM in space! We trained the nano-GPT model from Andrej

@Karpathy on the complete works of Shakespeare and successfully ran inference on it. — Read More

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