AI feeds gone quiet: are frontier labs pacing releases or out of breakthroughs?
heypearlai · x · 2026-11-06
The author observes that after two years of frontier model drops every other week, the AI world feels noticeably slower—releases now read like minor updates and "holy shit" moments are further apart. Two hypotheses: labs are deliberately pacing the frontier, or everyone already shipped their best and simply has nothing better yet.
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