The Release Note #20 – The AI Race is On – Opus 4.5, GPT 5.2 and More

Euryka adds Claude Opus 4.5, GPT 5.2, DeepSeek 3.2, and updated Grok models. New agency-focused Sparks templates, Prospector beta updates, and advanced prompting guides for Flux 2 and Gemini Banana image models.

The AI landscape shifted dramatically this week. OpenAI issued what industry insiders are calling a ‘Code Red’ in response to Google Gemini’s rapid advances. Anthropic launched their most powerful reasoning model yet. And DeepSeek, the unexpected dark horse, continues to deliver impressive results at a fraction of the cost.

For marketing teams juggling multiple AI subscriptions, this creates a familiar problem: which model should you use? Which subscription is worth keeping? How do you stay current when the leaderboard changes every week?

Here’s the good news: with Euryka’s AI orchestration platform, you don’t need to pick a side. You get access to all the leading models in one workspace, with your brand context automatically applied across every interaction. When a new model launches, we integrate it. When an existing model improves, you benefit immediately.

This release adds four major model updates, five new agency-focused templates, and continued progress on our Prospector lead generation engine. Let’s dive in.


Fresh AI Models: Four Major Additions

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We’ve integrated the latest flagship models from the leading AI labs, giving you more choice depending on whether you need speed, depth, cost efficiency, or reasoning power.

Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking

Anthropic’s newest flagship reasoning model represents a significant leap in how AI approaches complex, multi-step problems. Unlike standard language models that generate responses in a single pass, Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking uses extended reasoning chains to break down complicated queries, verify its own logic, and deliver more accurate, nuanced outputs.

What makes it special:

  • Advanced reasoning: Excels at complex analysis, strategic planning, and multi-variable problems
  • Improved accuracy: Fewer hallucinations and more reliable citations
  • Better context retention: Maintains coherence across longer conversations
  • Transparent thinking: Shows its reasoning process, helping you understand how it reached conclusions

Best for: Strategy documents, technical briefs, complex research synthesis, scenario planning, and any task requiring deep analytical thinking.

Early testing with our beta clients shows particularly strong results when using Opus 4.5 for competitive analysis, campaign strategy development, and technical documentation where accuracy matters more than speed.

GPT 5.2

OpenAI’s latest release arrives as a direct response to increasing competition from Google and Anthropic. Internally dubbed their ‘Code Red’ model, GPT 5.2 delivers noticeable improvements in creative writing quality, instruction following, and multi-format content generation.

Key improvements:

  • Enhanced creative output: More natural, engaging writing with better tonal control
  • Improved instruction adherence: Follows complex, multi-step prompts more reliably
  • Better brand voice matching: Stronger ability to adapt to style guidelines from your Brand Hub
  • Faster response times: Optimised inference for quicker generation

Best for: Blog posts, social media content, email campaigns, ad copy, and any creative writing where brand voice consistency matters.

If you’ve been using GPT-4 or GPT-4.5 for content generation, try GPT 5.2 on your next brief. The quality jump is immediately noticeable, particularly for maintaining consistent tone across longer documents.

DeepSeek 3.2

DeepSeek remains the surprise story of 2025. Originally dismissed as a cost-focused alternative, it’s evolved into a genuinely competitive model that punches well above its weight class. DeepSeek 3.2 continues this trajectory with improvements in reasoning, coding, and structured output generation.

Why it matters:

  • Exceptional value: Delivers quality comparable to premium models at a fraction of the cost
  • Strong at structured tasks: Excels at generating templates, forms, outlines, and data organisation
  • Reliable for technical content: Performs well on documentation, specifications, and process descriptions
  • Fast inference: Quick response times make it ideal for iterative workflows

Best for: Technical documentation, structured content, process workflows, templated outputs, and high-volume generation where cost efficiency matters.

Many of our agency clients use DeepSeek for first-draft generation and structured content, then refine with GPT or Claude for final polish. It’s a smart workflow that balances quality and cost.

Grok (Latest Version)

We’ve updated Grok to the newest version, bringing improvements in conversational AI, real-time information access, and personality-driven outputs. Grok maintains its distinctive, more casual tone whilst delivering increasingly reliable results.

What’s improved:

  • Better real-time awareness: More current information and trend awareness
  • Improved conversational flow: More natural back-and-forth exchanges
  • Enhanced creative ideation: Strong at brainstorming and exploratory thinking
  • Personality flexibility: Can adapt tone from casual to professional as needed

Best for: Brainstorming sessions, trend analysis, exploratory conversations, and creative ideation where you want a more conversational AI partner.

How to Choose the Right Model

With seven language models now available in Threads (Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, and Llama), here’s a quick decision framework:

  • Complex strategy or analysis? Claude Opus 4.5 Thinking
  • Brand-consistent content creation? GPT 5.2
  • Structured or templated content? DeepSeek 3.2
  • Brainstorming or trend exploration? Grok
  • Cost-sensitive, high-volume work? DeepSeek 3.2 or Mistral
  • Technical or coding tasks? Claude Opus or DeepSeek

Remember: with Euryka’s orchestration layer, you can switch models mid-conversation or use different models for different stages of the same project. Your brand context flows through automatically, so you maintain consistency regardless of which model you choose.


New Business Sparks for Agency Workflows

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We’ve expanded our Sparks library with five new templates designed specifically for agency teams managing multiple clients, complex projects, and formal documentation requirements.

These aren’t generic templates. They’re built from proven agency workflows, pre-wired to pull from your Brand Hub and project context, and designed to reduce the time you spend on repetitive documentation.

Statements of Work

Generate comprehensive SOWs that clearly define project scope, deliverables, timelines, and commercial terms. The Spark pulls client information from your project context, applies your agency’s standard terms, and produces a professional document ready for your final review.

What it includes:

  • Project overview and objectives
  • Detailed scope and deliverables
  • Timeline and milestones
  • Commercial terms and payment schedule
  • Assumptions and dependencies
  • Change management process

Time saved: What typically takes 2-3 hours of copying, pasting, and reformatting now takes 10 minutes of context entry and review.

Retainer Agreements

Create recurring service agreements with clear monthly deliverables, SLAs, and renewal terms. Particularly useful for agencies managing multiple ongoing client relationships where consistency across agreements matters.

What it includes:

  • Service description and monthly deliverables
  • Retainer fee structure
  • Reporting and communication cadence
  • Renewal and termination terms

Pro tip: Wire this Spark to your agency’s Brand Hub with your standard terms, then create project-specific versions for each client. The base template stays consistent whilst client-specific details adapt automatically.

Internal Design Briefs

Standardise how your creative team receives project instructions. This Spark generates detailed internal briefs that give designers and developers everything they need without endless Slack threads or unclear requirements.

What it includes:

  • Project background and client context
  • Creative objectives and success metrics
  • Target audience and key messages
  • Brand guidelines and asset requirements
  • Technical specifications and constraints
  • Timeline and review process
  • Reference materials and inspiration

Why it matters: Clear internal briefs reduce revision cycles, improve first-draft quality, and make your creative team more efficient. Many agencies report 30-40% fewer internal revisions after standardising their brief process.

External Design Briefs

Create client-facing creative briefs that clearly communicate project vision, requirements, and expectations. These briefs serve as alignment documents that reduce scope creep and ensure everyone agrees on objectives before work begins.

What it includes:

  • Campaign or project overview
  • Business objectives and KPIs
  • Target audience insights
  • Key messages and positioning
  • Deliverables and specifications
  • Timeline and approval process
  • Budget and resource requirements

Best practice: Generate the external brief from your internal brief, then refine for client presentation. This ensures internal and external documentation stays aligned whilst tailoring language for each audience.

Case Study Templates

Transform completed projects into compelling case studies that demonstrate your agency’s capabilities and results. This Spark structures the narrative, highlights key metrics, and creates scannable content that works across your website, proposals, and sales conversations.

What it includes:

  • Client background and challenge
  • Strategic approach and solution
  • Creative execution and deliverables
  • Results and business impact
  • Key learnings and insights
  • Client testimonials (if provided)
  • Visual showcase suggestions

Time saved: Case studies that typically take a week of back-and-forth now come together in a day, giving you more marketing assets to support new business development.

How to Use Business Sparks

  1. Connect to your Brand Hub: Add your agency’s standard terms, positioning, and style guidelines
  2. Create project context: Set up each client as a project with specific details
  3. Generate first draft: Select the appropriate Spark, add any additional context, click generate
  4. Review and refine: AI gets you 80% there, you add expert finishing touches
  5. Save to Collections: Store completed documents for easy reuse and version control

These Sparks work best when you invest time upfront setting up your Brand Hub and project contexts properly. The more context you provide, the better the outputs become.


Prospector: Taking Shape

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We’ve made significant progress on Prospector based on feedback from our early beta clients. Lots of UI enhancements, workflow improvements, and under-the-hood updates that make the entire lead discovery and outreach process feel more intuitive.

What’s New in This Update

Improved UI/UX:

  • Cleaner list management interface
  • Better filtering and segmentation options
  • Faster prospect research loading times
  • More intuitive email sequence builder

Enhanced Research Quality:

  • More accurate company data extraction
  • Better job title and role identification
  • Improved detection of recent funding and company changes
  • Stronger context gathering for personalisation

Workflow Improvements:

  • Smoother transition from research to outreach
  • Better integration with Deep Research for individual prospects

Why Prospector Matters

Account-based marketing typically requires three separate tools:

  1. A lead database to find prospects (Apollo, ZoomInfo, etc.)
  2. A research tool to gather intelligence (manual LinkedIn stalking, Google searches)
  3. An outreach platform to manage sequences (Lemlist, Mailshake, etc.)

Each tool costs money. Each tool requires context switching. And your brand voice gets lost in the transitions.

Prospector consolidates this workflow into a single, brand-aware system:

Find: Query based on role, company size, industry, location, funding stage
Research: Deep Research on individual prospects to gather real insights
Personalise: Generate messaging sequences that reference specific company context
Launch: Manage outreach campaigns with Brand Hub tone automatically applied

Everything stays in one workspace. Your brand context flows through automatically. And you’re not copying and pasting between five different browser tabs.

Beta Client Results

Early beta clients are reporting:

  • 40-60% reduction in time from prospect identification to first outreach
  • Higher response rates from better personalisation based on Deep Research
  • More consistent messaging from Brand Hub integration
  • Better team collaboration from shared prospect lists and sequence templates

One agency client recently told us: “Prospector turned our ABM process from a three-week slog into a three-day sprint. The quality didn’t drop. It improved.

Joining the Beta

We’re working closely with a small group of beta clients to refine Prospector before wider release. If you’re interested in joining, reach out via Intercom and tell us:

  • What your current lead generation process looks like
  • What problems you’re trying to solve
  • How many prospects you typically manage at once

We’re particularly interested in agencies running ABM for multiple clients, and in-house teams at mid-market B2B companies with defined ICP profiles.


Getting More from Flux 2 and Gemini Banana

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Image generation quality depends heavily on how you prompt and iterate. We’ve put together a detailed guide on advanced prompting and reprompting techniques using two of our most popular image models: Flux 2 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (affectionately nicknamed ‘Banana’).

Why These Two Models?

Flux 2 excels at artistic interpretation, stylistic consistency, and creative flexibility. It’s particularly strong when you want distinctive visual styles, illustration work, or conceptual imagery.

Gemini Banana leads in photorealism, coherence across remixing, and likeness preservation. It’s currently ranked number one on LMArena for both image editing and text-to-image generation, making it the go-to choice for product photography, marketing visuals, and when you need to maintain specific visual elements across iterations.

Key Techniques Covered in the Guide

Starting Strong:

  • How to structure initial prompts for better first-generation quality
  • When to be specific vs. when to leave room for AI interpretation
  • Using style references and artistic movements effectively

Iterative Refinement:

  • The remix workflow: how to progressively improve without starting over
  • Cross-model remixing: starting in one model and refining in another
  • Maintaining visual consistency whilst changing specific elements

Advanced Controls:

  • Aspect ratio selection for different use cases
  • Negative prompting to exclude unwanted elements
  • Style weight and adherence adjustments
  • Using image references for brand consistency

Common Mistakes:

  • Over-prompting (when more words make results worse)
  • Under-describing critical elements
  • Not leveraging the remix feature effectively
  • Switching models too early in the process

Practical Workflows

For Product Photography:

  1. Generate base product shot in in your preferred model
  2. Remix to adjust lighting, background, or angle
  3. Use negative prompts to remove any unwanted elements
  4. Upscale for final output quality

For Social Media Graphics:

  1. Generate concept in your preferred model for the initial style
  2. Remix in Gemini Banana for photorealistic elements
  3. Iterate until brand-consistent
  4. Export at correct aspect ratio for platform

For Campaign Hero Images:

  1. Generate multiple concept variations in Flux 2
  2. Select strongest concept
  3. Refine in Gemini Banana for polish
  4. Remix with brand colour palette references
  5. Final upscale and export

We are working on a full guide and academy video tutorials which will include example prompts, before/after comparisons, and specific tips for common marketing use cases. Watch this space!


Happy Christmas from the Euryka Team

It’s that time of year. We’ve put together a short Christmas video showcasing what’s possible when you create entirely within Euryka – from concept to script to voiceover to video generation to final edit.

The video was made using:

  • Threads for brainstorming and scripting
  • Sparks for structured content generation
  • Imaginations for all visual assets
  • Voice synthesis for narration
  • Video generation for animation and motion

No external tools. No context switching. Just one workspace with everything orchestrated around a single creative vision.

Look out for one more email before the year ends – our 2025 recap. But we’re still shipping updates, with plenty more happening in the background as we head into the new year.

Merry Christmas from all of us at Euryka. Thank you for being part of this journey.


What’s Next?

We’re already working on the next set of updates, including:

  • Additional video model integrations
  • More Sparks templates for specific industries
  • Prospector wider beta release
  • Continued model updates as new versions launch

As always, your feedback shapes our roadmap. If you have thoughts, questions, or want a walkthrough of any new features, reply to us via Intercom or book a quick session with the team.


Ready to Experience These Updates?

All these features are available immediately to all subscribers:

  • Four new AI models in Threads
  • Five new Business Sparks templates
  • Updated Prospector (for beta participants)
  • Advanced image prompting guide

If you’re on a trial, now’s the perfect time to upgrade and unlock the full power of what we’re building. Our Pro and Studio plans give you unlimited access to all models, templates, and features without restrictions.

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