18 months from o3 to Claude Mythos: public models still close to last year's frontier
louisvarge · x · 2026-11-06
The author reflects on frontier pacing: the best model 18 months ago was OpenAI o3, 9 months ago Claude Mythos. He believes labs certainly have incredible internal models, but publicly available ones remain too close to Mythos — a take on the gap between internal and released capabilities.
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