Something interesting happened over the past few days. Three major AI models launched within the same week. Each now claims leadership in a different area.
Google introduced Gemini 3, which currently tops the general-intelligence benchmarks. Anthropic followed with Claude Opus 4.5, the new leader on coding benchmarks. And OpenAI released GPT-5.1 Codex Max, its coding model capable of working autonomously for more than 24 hours.
So, who’s winning?
Top stories this week:
- Google, Anthropic and OpenAI all launched new models this week, each claiming leadership in a different area.
- Benchmarks diverge from real-world experience — developers still prefer certain models for how they reason and solve edge cases.
- AI is shifting toward specialisation: voice, image, coding, and text handled by different best-in-class services.
- Microsoft positions itself as the orchestration hub with Foundry and its investments in Anthropic and OpenAI.
- Google’s vertical stack and potential sale of TPU chips to Meta show a market that is fragmenting, not consolidating.
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