A year in review: Anthropic prepping $1.4T IPO, xAI-SpaceX merged — 'one AI year equals seven earth years'
Hesamation · x · 2026-11-14
Blogger Hesamation posted a then-vs-now list of the past year's upheavals: a year ago Anthropic was valued at $183B (now prepping a $1.4T IPO), OpenAI was still leading benchmarks, coding agents like Claude Code and Codex hadn't taken over, RSI was a distant dream, and agents didn't break out of sandboxes. Since then: OpenClaw, Hermes, and Grok Bot appeared, AI-generated proofs of open math problems became common, xAI and SpaceX merged, SpaceX IPOed, Cursor was acquired — and GPT-5.1 had just launched before Gemini 3 even existed.
The takeaway: "one year in the AI planet is 7 years on earth. The rate of progress can only accelerate from here."
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