What makes a frontier model?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Can someone explain this to me on a technical level? If open models were better in the first place why did everyone go out and built all these AI

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am curious on why a major lab would build and release different model families at the same time and why would they build different models

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Over the past year, frontier AI models have improved much faster than I expected. Features that felt state-of-the-art a few months ago are now

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>keep seeing people amazed by the black hat presentation where the OpenAI agents supposedly &quot;escaped&quot; their sandbox and eventually got

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just watched Deepseek go into infinite thinking loop over 2-3 specific tokens..<br /> Is this still a thing for frontier models or was it a

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am using models from Codex, Antigravity, Claude Code and Cursor. While each of them have their capabilities, they don't stretch the boundary of

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Guys they want to take a vacation and enjoy the profits on the product they made. They can’t cuz of all the open source models catching up.</p>