With all the crazy AI models that dropped a few weeks ago: GPT 5.1 Pro, Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, Grok 4.1, Claude Opus 4.5... OpenAI apparently issued a "Code Red" email that they need to get GPT back to the top of the list. Rumors are there's 4 more models, possible "GPT 5.2" getting ready to release soon to put OpenAI back on top in the AI race. In the meantime, Gemini 3 Pro, Grok 4.1, and Claude Opus 4.5 are trading to be at the top in terms of best performing models for text and development. Google is leading in basically every AI use case now: text, images, video and audio. When in doubt, can't go wrong with using a Google model for your AI needs. But what have you been using lately?

With all the craziness last week of Gemini 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Grok 4.1, ChatGPT-5.1 Pro, ChatGPT-5.1-Codex-Max... Anthropic needed to catch up! They released Opus 4.5 today, and it sounds like it's a beast of a model. According to their benchmarks, it's outperforming all those other new models in many of the metrics, plus it's considerably cheaper that Opus 4.1 (but still pretty expensive) at $5 in and $25 out. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5 Let's see if it takes the lead...

ChatGPT-5.1 Pro launched and it's slow but smart, solving problems that people thought couldn't be solved by AI. ChatGPT-5.1-Codex-Max also launched for the vibe coders. It supposed to be able to focus on a single task for up to 24 hours working on it's own in the cloud. Gemini 3.0 Pro also went live this week, pumping insane landing pages and simple video games in a single prompt. And Nano Banana Pro also released right after Gemini 3.0 Pro, and it finally may be here. Photo-realistic images from a single prompt. Let me know if you end up trying one or all of them!