Open-source models already at SOTA — Anthropic/OpenAI edge is just 5GW compute, dev argues
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-18
Developer ccerrato147 offers an unverified empirical take: open-source model teams are already at SOTA, and Anthropic/OpenAI's lead comes solely from their 5GW compute and energy access. He claims Opus and GPT-5.6 are now nerfed beyond recognition versus two months ago, meaning Astra and Fable excel only by 'eating' most available compute — and DeepSeek or Zai.org with 1GW each would tie the frontier labs.
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