Researcher: OpenAI runs about two months ahead of Anthropic on the capability exponential
boden_moraski · x · 2026-10-20
Peter Wildeford (Forethought) claims that across a variety of indicators, OpenAI appears to be roughly two months earlier than Anthropic on the capability exponential. The thread revolves around this claim: repliers note the wording was easily misread as OpenAI being behind (earlier on the exponential means ahead), and Wildeford apologized for the ambiguity and clarified his intent.
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