alt Hacker News> capabilities have largely converged across foundation models over the last 18 months
For reference, in March '25 the models du jour were Sonnet 3.7, gpt o4 and gemini 2.5 pro. GPT5 was in august '25.
It's been a while since we've heard the old "models have stagnated". Oh well.
It's not "models have stagnated" but "models released at the same time are on the same level". Improvements are still real but the relative gaps between OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Grok, Gemini and open models are closer than ever. That doesn't mean progress is slowing down, it's just more widely distributed.