A joking ‘US ban benchmark’ compares OpenAI and Anthropic
A so-called “US ban ” puts OpenAI roughly level with Anthropic after a claimed GPT 5.6 preview from the previous day. It also claims Chinese models will not catch up and says Gemini’s number has not been updated yet. The discussion is mostly joking and sarcastic, not a careful technical comparison.
Several replies question the basic claim and argue that unreleased or delayed are not the same as banned models. Other replies shift into , saying would be hard to block once they are widely available.
Key points
- OpenAI is compared with Anthropic in a joking “US ban .”
- GPT 5.6 is mentioned as the reason OpenAI moved in the comparison.
- Gemini is described as not yet updated in the .
- Replies dispute whether any OpenAI model is actually banned.
- come up as a separate access-control concern.