OpenAI took the lead, lost it and retook it within a month — the cycle used to take months
Angaisb_ · x · 2026-09-29
One observer notes that in under a month OpenAI took the lead, lost it, and is poised to take it back — a full cycle that used to take months just a few years ago, underscoring how dramatically the frontier model race has accelerated.
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