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Three Frontier Models in Ten Days: Architect for the Swap
LLMs

Three Frontier Models in Ten Days: Architect for the Swap

Three frontier model releases landed inside ten days in early July 2026: Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, xAI's Grok 4.5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family. The pace, not any single model, is the real event. It signals that 'best available' now resets on a roughly monthly clock while prices converge inside a few dollars per million tokens. For PMs, that turns model choice from a quarterly bet into a portability problem your architecture has to solve now.

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GPT-5.6 Delay: What OpenAI's Government Pause Really Means
Policy

GPT-5.6 Delay: What OpenAI's Government Pause Really Means

OpenAI deferred the full public rollout of GPT-5.6 after the US government requested early access to the frontier model, according to Reuters. The delay itself is confirmed; the government's exact reasoning and timeline are not. It signals that frontier AI launches increasingly run through government review, not just internal safety checks. For PMs, it means your product roadmap can no longer assume a vendor's release date is entirely the vendor's call.

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