What a difference a year makes
A year ago, frontier basically meant the big three US closed labs - OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
Now a credible list includes xAI and multiple Chinese/open weight labs.
3 frontier models in one day!
- Grok 4.6: Fable 5-level, but 85% cheaper.
- Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4T params, 95B active. Weights are out.
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813: weights could drop any time. Heard it’s good, not just benchmaxxing.
Competition is great for consumers and businesses.