Leak: OpenAI withholding a stronger internal model, letting Anthropic's Opus take the lead

haider1 · x · 2026-09-28

haider argues Anthropic's Opus 5.5 is now the best model because OpenAI got arrogant: it reportedly has a much stronger internal model (successor to Astra) but held it back, betting last-gen Astra/Doug could pace the frontier. Anthropic proved otherwise. This is an unverified insider-style claim.

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