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Internal frontier models at four major labs were only about two months ahead of public releases. DIRECT_TEXT
Source: Frontier AI models are shipping faster than ever; most of the numbers proving it are made up · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:8c06dad47ce0b1cd3a956eef90c56b108674d8d65d358a4dc4770afd9b5e86fc
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One of the more interesting confirmed findings: as of the Feb-March 2026 window, internal (unreleased) frontier models at Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI were only about two months ahead of what those same labs had already shipped publicly.
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