AI strategist Nate B Jones says this week's OpenAI headlines — a major hire and the Fable model launch — create an incomplete picture of the AI race. Anthropic's recent pre-training advances and where top talent is actually moving suggest a different leader emerging. The bigger story might be Midjourney's medical imaging breakthrough. For builders, the real lesson: the AI advantage goes not to whoever wins the headline cycle, but to whoever compounds talent recruitment, pre-training progress, and breakthrough applications.

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