AnalysisAI ModelsJuly 16, 2026

Reddit user speculates Anthropic and OpenAI rely on scale, not secret sauce

An opinion post on r/LocalLLaMA argues that Anthropic and OpenAI's advantage is simply model scale, citing rumors of Opus at 5T parameters and open models only recently breaking 1T. The post lacks verification but reflects community sentiment about the diminishing moat of frontier labs.

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