Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down
Overall, the cadence of Anthropic model releases has accelerated from roughly every quarter in 2025 to almost monthly in 2026.OpenAI's release cycle slowed somewhat after a flurry of releases early this year. The upstart delivered several model variants in February and March, followed by GPT-5.5 in April. 77 days later, on July 9, GPT-5.6 reached general availability.
- ▪Overall, the cadence of Anthropic model releases has accelerated from roughly every quarter in 2025 to almost monthly in 2026.OpenAI's release cycle slowed somewhat after a flurry of releases early this year.
- ▪The upstart delivered several model variants in February and March, followed by GPT-5.5 in April.
- ▪77 days later, on July 9, GPT-5.6 reached general availability.
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