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Frontier AI Models Now Hold the Lead for Just 7 Weeks — and the Window Is Shrinking

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

The top of the AI leaderboard used to be a long-term parking spot. Now it’s more like a turnstile.

The Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), which tracks how language models perform across multiple benchmarks on a single unified scale, shows that the median time a frontier model holds the #1 ranking is now just seven weeks. Since February 2024, when Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus first nudged GPT-4 off the top, the crown has changed hands 17 times.

Google Restructures AI Coding Task Force to Close the Gap With Anthropic After Key Researchers Defect

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:50:00 +0800

Google is restructuring its recently established AI coding task force in an effort to narrow the widening technical gap with Anthropic, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Google DeepMind Distinguished Engineer: To Land a Top AI Lab Job, You Need to 'Work Like a Dog'

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:04:00 +0800

If you’re aiming for a research role at OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google DeepMind, you’d better be ready to sacrifice your nights, weekends, and possibly your social life. That’s the candid message from Vladimir Feinberg, a Distinguished Engineer at Google DeepMind and the head of Gemini pretraining, who told aspiring AI researchers they’ll need to “work like a dog” to have a shot.