Anthropic · OpenAI · Gemini · Claude · Google · Meta · The Verge
The AI race is back on
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Google and Meta are challenging Anthropic and OpenAI at the AI frontier.
Key facts
- According to the company’s testing, Muse Wonder Full can compete with leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic, including GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, and Claude Fable 5.1, on numerous benchmarks
- In April, its new Superintelligence Labs released its first major model, Muse Spark
- Since releasing Gemini 3 late last year, the tech giant had delivered little more than incremental improvements
- Veteran executive Jeff Dean departed the company with several other AI researchers to launch a new startup
Summary
Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Then, in the space of a few days, everything changed. Until this week, Google looked like it had permanently lost its place among the AI front-runners. A series of internal shake-ups only added to the sense that Google was retreating from the AI frontier. Veteran executive Jeff Dean departed the company with several other AI researchers to launch a new startup. Then, on Tuesday, Google upended that narrative with the release of Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model the company claims matches or beats flagship offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic on numerous benchmarks, whatever value benchmarks are still worth.