Today, we are excited to announce that GPT-5.2, Azure OpenAI’s newest frontier reasoning model, is available in Microsoft Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret cloud environments. This release marks another significant milestone in our mission to bring cutting edge AI capabilities to the nation’s most critical missions, securely, reliably, and at unprecedented speed.

Frontier AI for the Nation’s Most Sensitive Workloads

GPT-5.2 represents the next evolution of frontier level reasoning, planning, and problem solving. It brings improved contextual understanding, stronger multistep reasoning, and better performance on complex analytical tasks, capabilities that support the operational needs of defense and national security customers.

National security customers require solutions that can handle complex tasks with structured outputs and enterprise security and reliability. GPT-5.2 on Microsoft Foundry’s enterprise-grade platform is optimized for these capabilities.

• Multi-Step Logical Chains: Decomposes complex tasks, justifies decisions, and produces explainable plans.
• Context-Aware Planning: Ingests large inputs (project briefs, codebases, meeting notes) for holistic, actionable output.
• Analytics and Decision Support: Useful for wind tunneling scenarios, explaining trade-offs, and producing defensible plans for stakeholders.
• Application Modernization: Make rapid progress in refactoring services, generating tests, and producing migration plans with risk and rollback criteria.
• Data and Pipelines: Audit ETL, recommend monitors/SLAs, and generate validation SQL for data integrity.

By making GPT-5.2 available across classified clouds, mission owners can now apply state-of-the-art generative AI to accelerate analysis, reduce cognitive load, and improve decision support while aligning with U.S. Government security compliance and isolation requirements.

Driven by Customer Need

The arrival of GPT-5.2 in classified clouds is not just a technological achievement, it is a direct response to clear, mission critical demand. Customers across the U.S. Government asked for faster access to advanced reasoning capabilities to support time critical operations.

Their collaboration guided prioritization, influenced an accelerated release timeline, and reaffirmed our commitment to delivering frontier AI where the mission needs it most.

Looking Ahead

With GPT-5.2 now available in our Secret and Top Secret air-gapped clouds, we are continuing to expand the mission-ready AI ecosystem:

• Enhancing support for agentic workflows and orchestration across multiple models
• Improving observability, safety guardrails, and security posture for classified deployments
• Accelerating availability of future frontier models to support the customer mission

We are excited to see how mission teams apply GPT‑5.2 to solve their hardest problems, and we remain committed to enabling secure, rapid access to the most advanced AI capabilities in the world.

Learn more about GPT-5.2 and get started today!