Eseandre Mordi
⬤ OpenAI looks ready to drop its next big update, and people are watching closely. The company's expected to unveil GPT-5.2, nicknamed "Garlic" internally, and some users on the Cursor platform are already getting early access. What's interesting is that new image-generation systems might come along for the ride—Chestnut (Image-2) and Hazelnut (Image-2-mini) could expand OpenAI's offerings pretty significantly. Prediction market data shows traders are betting heavily on this happening soon.
⬤ The numbers from Polymarket tell the story pretty clearly. The probability of a December 11 release shot up to about 91 percent as trading picked up momentum. Other dates like December 12 and December 13? They're sitting way lower. And the December 31+ option is barely hanging on at 1.5 percent, which means the market's basically convinced OpenAI's about to make its move. The visual examples floating around include a game controller tagged as "Generated by GPT Image-2" and group photos that show just how realistic these advanced image models have gotten.
⬤ If the releases happen as expected, OpenAI will be going head-to-head with smaller, efficiency-focused AI systems like Nano Banana. Adding Chestnut and Hazelnut would give OpenAI a solid presence in the lightweight image-model space, while GPT-5.2 handles the heavy lifting on the high-performance side. The AI community and developers are paying close attention because they know these capability jumps, accessibility changes, and platform integrations matter when new versions drop.
⬤ Why does this launch matter? Because when OpenAI releases something major, it usually shifts how people adopt technology and sets expectations for what's coming next in AI. With prediction markets pricing in a near-term announcement at 91 percent and examples of what the models can do already making the rounds, GPT-5.2 could genuinely shake up competitive dynamics and change how people feel about where AI is heading.
Eseandre Mordi
