At any point before 1 Jan 2026, for a period of 3 months or more, will the best available language model be built by someone other than OpenAI? Must be publicly avaliable, via open source parameters or API (which could be paid).
Mar 25, 6:37am: Best available language model from an OpenAI c competitor by 2026 → Best available language model from an OpenAI competitor by 2026
Update 2026-01-01 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The creator will use the Eleuther Capabilities Index (https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/eci) as the measure to determine the best available language model.
Based on current data, the creator indicates they would resolve this to NO, as only Gemini 3 has been ahead of OpenAI's frontier model, and for less than the required 3 months.
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I think the answer should be “no”. Eleuther capabilities index has only Gemini 3 ahead of the OpenAI frontier and for less than 3 months. https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/eci
It’s not a perfect measure but nothing is.