OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teases ‘really fun’ launch amidst intensifying AI wars

The post accompanied an AI-generated image of himself, which was captioned, “most likely to launch an image model“.

This comes days after OpenAI unveiled its latest model, GPT-5.2. The timing is critical for a new model as the AI company has been under pressure from Google’s Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5.

Earlier this month, Altman reportedly declared an internal “code red” to accelerate improvements to…