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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol launches as a cheaper, workhorse model excelling at coding and web tasks, trailing Fable in raw intelligence but offering better cost‑efficiency and practical agent performance.

Gemini 3.5 Flash offers strong speed and agentic performance but suffers from higher cost, hallucination issues, and Google integration problems, making it niche rather than a top-tier contender.

AI is now visible in US productivity statistics as job growth revises down but GDP stays strong, indicating a structural shift from AI-driven automation.

Kimi K2.5 is a leading open-source model, close to proprietary frontier models, with an innovative agent swarm feature but lacks safety protocols.

Even if AI capabilities continue advancing, human employment may persist for 10-20 years during the 'Cyborg Era' but will eventually end as AI becomes superior, though premature policy interventions to protect jobs should be avoided.