OpenAI falling-behind narrative 'massively exaggerated', claims insider: Astra still competitive with Opus 5.5
haider1 · x · 2026-11-15
X user haider1 argues the "OpenAI is falling behind" narrative is massively exaggerated: the company simply hasn't released its frontier model publicly yet, and Astra remains entirely competitive with Opus 5.5. The real problem, he says, is OpenAI's blunders around usage limits that made its models painful to actually use.
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