Another Week of Waiting: Frontier Pace Still Controlled Despite Model Drops
patience_cave · x · 2026-11-14
Blogger patiencecave's weekly recap: many models launched, but the frontier is still being paced. Gemini 4 Carbon is similar in level to Argon, GPT-6.2 Astra is nowhere to be seen, and the hype-mongers who promised "Fable 5.5" weeks ago were wrong — Dario didn't need to launch anything.
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