Hesamation: frontier labs are in a Mexican standoff, each holding its next model waiting for the others
Hesamation · x · 2026-11-05
Hesamation uses the classic three-way standoff meme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to describe the current industry situation: every frontier lab is sitting on its next model, waiting for the others to release first — he lists the codenames fable 5.5, astra 6.x and gemini 4 carbon (unverified/joking).
The image of three gunslingers staring each other down stands in for the OpenAI–Anthropic–Google release standoff: whoever ships first risks being countered, so everyone waits.
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