They are behind, hence the panic. On top of that, Sam has been trying to do another funding round, so he's desperate to make the company look good.

Opus 5.5 was a gut punch and my impression is OpenAI is still reeling.

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atonse 6 hours ago | parent [-]

People said Astra was a gut punch and that Anthropic was reeling. (Opus 5 was almost universally panned)

The best thing is that we benefit from these constant back and forth gut punches :)

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jhonof 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I actually heard the opposite, the folks at Anthropic felt pretty confident they were ahead after the Astra release because it wasn't as good as they were expecting.

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JacobAsmuth 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't know why anyone was saying that when Anthropic clearly knew Opus 5.5 significantly outperformed Astra at the time of Astra's launch. I think it might be a good exercise to go back and find out who called Astra a "gut punch" and lower your credence in their future claims.

	▲	atonse an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Random people on twitter, sorry, that is the best source I have, not having any visibility inside these companies :) So I'm happy to accept your view just as easily, stranger on the internet, since it logically makes more sense.