Model WatchFable 5, Sonnet 5, and GPT-5.6 raised the safety and routing barThe 2026 frontier launches made raw capability harder to separate from safeguards, effort levels, pricing, and model routing.July 10 2026//8 min read#anthropic#openai#gpt-5.6#claude-sonnet-5Open post→
Model WatchSonnet 4.5 and Gemini 3 made coding the frontier battlegroundAnthropic and Google ended 2025 by treating coding, agents, and computer use as the proving ground for frontier models.November 19 2025//6 min read#anthropic#google#claude-sonnet-4.5#gemini-3Open post→
Model WatchClaude 4 and GPT-5 made agent work a maintenance problemClaude 4 pushed long-running coding agents, then GPT-5 turned automatic reasoning into the default ChatGPT path.August 8 2025//6 min read#anthropic#openai#claude-4#gpt-5Open post→
Model WatchSpring 2025 split reasoning into productsClaude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini made reasoning less like one capability and more like a set of product choices.April 18 2025//7 min read#openai#anthropic#google#reasoning-modelsOpen post→
Model WatchGPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet compressed the frontierThe May and June 2024 launches made frontier quality feel faster, cheaper, more visual, and harder to rank with one benchmark.June 22 2024//6 min read#openai#anthropic#gpt-4o#claude-3.5-sonnetOpen post→
Model WatchClaude 3 gave the model picker real tradeoffsClaude 3 turned Anthropic's lineup into a practical choice between speed, price, and capability instead of one vague assistant.March 5 2024//7 min read#anthropic#claude-3#model-watchOpen post→