AnalysisAI ModelsJuly 16, 2026

Reddit: Anthropic and OpenAI rely on scale, not secret sauce

A Reddit post argues that Anthropic and OpenAI's advantage is purely scale, citing rumors of 5T-parameter Opus and 10T-parameter Mythos/Fable models. It notes open models only recently surpassed 1T parameters. The post claims frontier labs have no secret sauce beyond massive scale.

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