LLMs

Ted Sanders has explained how OpenAI names its models. Version numbers signal release order, relationship to other releases and size of improvement, while a separate tier ordering runs Luna < Terra < Sol < Astra. The quotation was posted by Simon Willison on 28 October 2026.

Yann LeCun, former Meta chief AI scientist and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a "failure" that won't be able to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. LeCun warned that AI labs are at risk of a "big bubble explosion" because current pricing doesn't cover operational costs, with services funded primarily by investors.