OpenAI wandered (imagegen, Sora) while Anthropic stayed laser-focused, yet they're neck and neck
voooooogel · x · 2026-10-15
Developer voooooogel observes that OpenAI has taken a long, distracted path (imagegen, Sora, and more), while Anthropic has been laser-focused since 2021 on building an automated SWE colleague — yet the two labs remain neck and neck in capability anyway.
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