New model release cadence between OpenAI and Anthropic has shrunk from ~10 weeks to ~11 days
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-30
A widely shared observation: OpenAI and Anthropic used to ship a new model roughly every 10 weeks on average — the cadence has now compressed to about 11 days, an order-of-magnitude speedup in frontier model iteration.
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