New models from Google and Meta crack the frontier AI duopoly
danshipper · x · 2026-10-15
Dan Shipper argues the frontier AI duopoly is cracking after new releases from Google and Meta this week. He cites a writer's hands-on test: unhappy with sentence-level editing in ChatGPT, the user switched to Argon in Google's Antigravity and got better results — direct evidence that a more multipolar frontier-model race is already benefiting users.
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