This is WILD.
GPT-5.6 by @OpenAI just dropped and the model war got messy fast.
Fable 5 still looks like the raw intelligence king, sitting at 60 on Artificial Analysis.
But GPT-5.6 Sol is right behind at 59, takes #1 in coding agents with 80, and does it at roughly one-third the cost.
Meanwhile Grok 4.5 @grok is the chaos pick. Not the smartest, but cheap, fast, efficient, and suddenly close enough to make everyone nervous.
So the race is no longer just “who is smartest?”
It’s Fable for raw brain. But too expensive!
GPT-5.6 for work and coding.
Grok 4.5 for price pressure and speed.
AI labs are not fighting for benchmarks anymore.
They’re fighting for who becomes the default worker.
GPT-5.6 by @OpenAI just dropped and the model war got messy fast.
Fable 5 still looks like the raw intelligence king, sitting at 60 on Artificial Analysis.
But GPT-5.6 Sol is right behind at 59, takes #1 in coding agents with 80, and does it at roughly one-third the cost.
Meanwhile Grok 4.5 @grok is the chaos pick. Not the smartest, but cheap, fast, efficient, and suddenly close enough to make everyone nervous.
So the race is no longer just “who is smartest?”
It’s Fable for raw brain. But too expensive!
GPT-5.6 for work and coding.
Grok 4.5 for price pressure and speed.
AI labs are not fighting for benchmarks anymore.
They’re fighting for who becomes the default worker.