Frontier Model Competition Is Dead: OpenAI and Anthropic Hold Back Releases
scaling01 · x · 2026-08-13
The author shares a personal tier list of LLMs based on capability and usability, including many hypothetical future iterations like GPT-6 and Opus 5.
The core argument is that while competition for second-tier models is well and alive, the race for frontier models has never been more dead. OpenAI and Anthropic are so far ahead that they don't even need to release new models for months.
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