Stone to Silicon

Artificial intelligence · December 2025

GPT-5.2

OpenAI's fast answer to Gemini 3, in Instant, Thinking and Pro tiers.

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.2 about three weeks after Gemini 3 Pro, following an internal 'code red'. GPT-5.2 Pro was the model behind the first AI-assisted solutions to open Erdős problems in January 2026.

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Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

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The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)