opus 5.5 was a massacre
and the fable 5.5 nuke hasn't even dropped yet
Thinking more about Opus 5.5 and imo this is another Opus 4.5 moment where Anthropic makes the crazy next leap, but like last time I'm sure others will catch up (or exceed)
But until then, Anthropic's gonna have a very dominant next month+ till OpenAI gets their shit together
The OpenAI/Anthropic cycle has proven itself out multiple times, I'd be surprised if it doesn't repeat again by end of year
Big question this time is if someone else can actually take the top spot. I'm like 90% sure it'll be OpenAI (underestimating them is dumb). I think Meta has the best chance of being the dark horse, Google is dead it's over, and Grok I'm very unsure on they need an insane jump from where they are
China is doing crazy stuff on smaller models and open weight, but at the real frontier they're not close right now and I don't see that changing
And of course the nuclear bomb Ant's sitting on right now of Fable 5.5... I have a very hard time imagining it not being something truly insane with how good the Opus, Haiku, and Sonnet models of the 5.5 gen have been