Reddit's 2026 LLM hall of fame: Opus 5.5 still unbeaten after 9 rival releases
G0dZylla · reddit · 2026-11-12
An r/Singularity user ranks the LLM "hall of fame" as of November 2026, crowning Claude Opus 5.5 (released September 22) as the best model — nine releases from OpenAI, Google, and Meta later, it remains the benchmark every new model is compared against.
The post credits Opus 5.5 with spillover effects beyond AI: first steps in recompiling PS5 software, a PS5 kernel jailbreak, a Switch 2 userland jailbreak, a 14-year-old porting the newly released Zelda to PC, and advances in reverse engineering. Honorable mentions for 2025 include the o3 series, Gemini 2.5 (huge context at the time), and Claude 3.7/4. Some people now argue AI development should stop at Opus 5.5 because it's "enough."
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