Anthropic and OpenAI shipped their cheaper models 89 minutes apart, and it is not the first time or the tenth. The industry that insists it cannot wait has spent three years proving it waits very well: right up until the rival calls a press briefing.

We have spent three years politely asking an essay-writing machine to answer in JSON and nothing else. TypeSafe AI has shipped a model that does not write, and the industry greeted it as a new paradigm. It is closer to an invoice.