The joke that Meta and Google caught up because they finally got access to Opus
Aizkmusic · x · 2026-10-16
A tongue-in-cheek AI-circle take: "The reason Meta and Google are catching up is because they finally got allowed to use Opus."
The quip riffs on Anthropic's Claude Opus being widely used as an underlying tool across top labs, implying rivals' catch-up depends on spillover from the strongest non-OpenAI model.
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