OpenAI goes 72 days without a frontier model, its longest gap since GPT-5
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-11-16
A viral post notes OpenAI hasn't released a frontier model in 72 days — officially the longest gap since GPT-5 to 5.1 (Aug–Nov 2025). If nothing ships in the coming weeks, it would match the longest gap between OpenAI frontier releases (o3 to GPT-5, Apr–Aug 2025).
danielmac8 argues it 'feels like OpenAI lost the race,' with rivals fielding Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5 and Gemini 4 Carbon while OpenAI sits in third place for the first time he can remember — while admitting he's been wrong about this before and hopes they come back.
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