The pace of notable releases across the industry right now is unlike any time I remember since I started doing this in the early 2000's. And it feels like it's accelerating

How is this a notable release? It's strictly worse than Gemini 2.5 on coding &c, and only an iterative improvement over their own models. The only thing that struck me as particularly interesting was the native visual reasoning.

Lots of releases but very little actual performance increases

Not really. We’re definitely in the incremental improvement stage at this point. Certainly no indication that progress is “accelerating”.