OpenAI's GPT-5.2 'code red' response to Google is coming next week

This seems to suggest model releases are going te become smaller and faster in reponse to increased competition, which will be interesting.

On the one hand, labs may finally be forced to focus on making faster and smarter models and becoming profitable instead of playing with experiments, which other companies seem to be better at anyway.

On the other hand, this could make the endless torrent of AI news even more pervasive, and more importantly could make labs focus on short-term gains instead of larger breakthroughs.