Exploring the Capability Gap Between Open and Closed AI Models
hyhieu226 · x · 2026-07-16
The author notes that recent massive capability leaps by US frontier AI labs (like OpenAI and Anthropic) have widened the gap between open and closed models once again. They speculate this might be because top players have achieved "recursive self-improvement," leveraging their compute to accelerate iteration. If models like Kimi can also make a massive leap, it would prove this gap isn't insurmountable and that intelligence can still become commoditized.
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