OpenAI accused of sitting on frontier models until Anthropic takes the lead

RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-10-25

A thread debates why OpenAI appears to hold frontier models internally until Anthropic releases more and takes the lead. RileyRalmuto argues this pattern has persisted since GPT-4.5, claiming "we'll never get their best models" — implying a lasting gap between internal and public OpenAI models.

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