They *are* neck and neck, but we don't know if this is achieved at similar costs. And clearly OpenAI and Anthropic have different paradigms. It is possible that one of those had a *subtly better* scaling law, and we've just seen it manifest. Would explain some reactions.
@euroswydd658 @teortaxesTex They are constantly neck and neck, it's not like either of them have any meaningful moat. Just grinding out ever more convoluted posttraining, benchmaxxing the latest viral benchmarks from HN.



