Why Claude wins on focus: OpenAI killed or dated 10 product surfaces in 2026 alone
dh7net · x · 2026-11-03
Answering "why is Opus 5.5 so good?", the author points to a slide from Air Street Capital's state of AI 2026 report: focus. Quoting OpenAI — "We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests" — the slide shows ten OpenAI product surfaces retired or given shutdown dates in 2026 alone, including DALL·E 2/3 API (49 months old), ChatGPT Plugins (12), Assistants API (34), Canvas, Evals platform, Operator (7), ChatGPT Pulse, Sora app (7), Agent Builder, and ChatGPT Atlas. Anthropic, by contrast, "never opened the fronts in the first place": Claude, MCP, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork all survive intact.
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