OpenAI has the smarter model. Anthropic is winning anyway.

Two charts tell the story.

OpenAI has the smarter model. Anthropic is winning anyway. Anthropic figured out something OpenAI didn't — and it has nothing to do with the model. Ravi Mehta May 19, 2026 32 7 1 Share Two charts tell the story. On Artificial Analysis’s intelligence ranking, OpenAI’s frontier models still beat Claude. They’re ahead by the benchmarks that have defined this industry for three years. Thanks for reading Ravi on Product! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe OpenAI’s most capable GPT model outperforms Claude Opus on key benchmarks On Ramp’s AI Index for May 2026, An

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