ChatGPT 'Red Alert'... Releases New Version Early to Compete with Google Gemini

As Google strengthens its push in the generative AI market with its new artificial intelligence model “Gemini 3 Pro,” OpenAI, which has led the AI market with ChatGPT, has reportedly entered an internal “high alert” status and begun taking countermeasures. The release date for the new version of ChatGPT, originally scheduled for the end of this month, is now expected to be moved up.

According to the US IT media outlet The Verge, OpenAI has rescheduled the release of its latest language model, “GPT-5.2,” to December 9. However, the exact timing may be adjusted based on development progress and technical factors such as server capacity. This move is seen as a response to the clear market advantages Gemini 3 Pro has shown and its rapid increase in user numbers.

Notably, OpenAI is taking this crisis very seriously internally. Reportedly, CEO Sam Altman has declared a state of high alert to all staff and instructed every department to focus on improving ChatGPT. In an internal memo, he emphasized that the new reasoning model under development has already outperformed Gemini 3 Pro in internal evaluations, demonstrating the company’s determination to fight back.

Although ChatGPT still maintains a high usage rate in the generative AI field, its market share has been declining noticeably in recent months. According to a survey by web traffic analytics firm SimilarWeb, the share of traffic to GPT series services fell from 87% a year ago to 71.3% earlier this month, while Google Gemini’s share rose from 5.7% to 15.1% over the same period. Notably, after its launch, Gemini 3 Pro immediately topped the AI performance ranking site “LM Arena” and scored more than 13 percentage points higher than GPT-5 in the challenging reasoning test “Human Final Exam.”

OpenAI is showing its determination to maintain technological leadership in a shifting competitive landscape. Chief Research Officer Mark Chen revealed that a next-generation model codenamed “Garlic” is under development internally, hinting at further countermeasures to come.

This trend suggests that technical competition between the two major giants in the generative AI market may become even more intense in the future. As a rapid-fire battle focused on user experience and performance unfolds, release schedules and feature upgrades among AI companies are expected to accelerate further. The criteria influencing public choice may also expand from technological strength to include reliability, applicability, and other dimensions.