The hall of fame as of november 2026

no need to talk about the first 3, Opus 5.5 may look like recency bias but it came out september 22 and: 1)crushed every single competitor 2)after this model we had 9 releases from openAI , GOOGLE and Meta and more than one month later it is still the best and every new model is compared with it. ( Fable 5.2 has been live for a few days so I didn't count it) 3)The release of this model was a HUGE turning point in the gaming scene: big steps in recompling the ps5 software, Kernel jailbreak for Ps5, Userland jailbreak for switch 2. a fricking 14 year old used it to port the newly released Zelda Ocarina of time on PC 4) reverse engineering 5) there are some people who genuinely think AI development should stop at opus 5.5 because they think it's "enough" GPT 3.5 was 2022, GPT4 in 2023, o1 in 2024. honorable mentions that i remember from 2025: o3 series of models, gemini2.5 pro(my personal favourite, it had huge context window at the time) and claude 3.7/4 . probably i'm missing some(like astra/mythos and the whole open source scene) so feel free to name other models that stood out! i can't imagine how good the next generation of models will be in 2027 Edit: thx who pointed it out, for