OpenAI’s 10th Anniversary, Its New Model, and the Race to Superintelligence

OpenAI has just been flagged 10 years With the big news: Release of GPT-5.2It’s a model designed to perfect cognitive work, and a bold prediction from CEO Sam Altman that superintelligence is now practically inevitable in the next decade.

The new model, which follows internal “Code Red” guidance to accelerate development, offers significant improvements to make it better at executing complex real-world tasks from start to finish than previous models.

This release signals that OpenAi is moving from abstract intelligence scores to metrics that track how well AI performs real-world jobs.

To discuss the potential impact of GPT-5.2 and OpenAI’s first influential decade in business, I spoke with SmarterX and Marketing AI Institute Founder and CEO Paul Roetzer on Episode 186 of the Artificial Intelligence program.

Intelligence beyond IQ

Early on, the AI ​​industry measured progress using criteria that closely resembled standardized tests, essentially intelligence tests for machines. But according to Reutzer, we have reached the limit by these measures.

“IQ tests are basically saturated,” says Reutzer. “When you try to evaluate these models against standardized tests that a human would take, AI is already there.

He’s basically the top human level, if not above the top human level on a lot of these tasks. So it’s hard for all of us to feel the difference when we talk about increases in IQ points.

Here comes GPT-5.2, which adds value to GDPR

With the release of GPT-5.2, OpenAI is leaning heavily on a new benchmark that evaluates a model’s ability to perform 1,300 specific tasks from 44 professions that contribute to GDP. The result is real-life deliverables, such as creating legal briefs, engineering diagrams, and nursing plans.

the results Surprisingly: OpenAI reports that GPT-5.2 Thinking achieved a win rate of around 71% against human experts in head-to-head comparisons.

“We need to start measuring against real work because that is how we will know when economic disruption is just around the corner,” says Reutzer. “I would say we’re there.”

Faster, cheaper and “better” than humans?

The consequences of this GDPR, as the standard is called, go beyond quality. OpenAI data suggests that leading models can complete these professional tasks approximately 100 times faster and 100 times cheaper than human experts in these fields.

In its announcement, OpenAI described this as a tool to “unlock more economic value for people,” focusing on how the model can help with spreadsheets, presentations, and coding.

“Notice they’re not saying we want to replace more jobs,” says Reutzer.

However, the implication regarding the displacement of human functions is difficult to ignore.

Variable assignment

OpenAI released GPT-5.2 during its 10th anniversary, inviting a look back at the company’s origins.

Founded in December 2015 as a non-profit, its original mission was to advance digital intelligence for the benefit of humanity, without the need for profit. The original declaration pledged to distribute energy equally and share patents with the world.

Compare that vision with now, and you will find the contrast stark.

“Nothing in that paragraph is any longer true,” says Reutzer, referring to the founding statement.

Today, OpenAI is a dominant commercial force, racing against global competitors, including Google, to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). In a Memorial function“, Sam Altman spoke about the journey, saying that the company is now “almost certain that it will build superintelligence in the next 10 years.”

OpenAI’s evolution from an exemplary nonprofit research lab to a force leading the global AI arms race is one of the most important business stories of not just the last decade, but of all time.