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Back to EpisodesOpenAI's "Spud" Dethrones Claude — The AI Race Resets Again
Published 5 months, 3 weeks ago
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OpenAI just fired back at Anthropic with GPT-5.5, codenamed "Spud" — the first fully retrained model since GPT-4.5. We break down the benchmark battle, Anthropic's rough week of bugs and complaints, Meta's AI-driven layoffs, the surprise App Store boom, and what Stanford's 2026 AI Index says about where this industry is really headed. Five stories, five minutes.