GPT 5 was released more than 3 months ago. Gemini 2.5 was released less than 8 months ago.

If not this model, Google at some point is going to get and stay ahead just because they have so many more people and compute resources they can throw at many directions while the others have to make the right choices with how they use their resources each time. Took a while to channel their numbers into a product direction but now I don't think they're going to let up