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A researcher concludes there is no moat, only shared recipes and migration

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A Meta researcher concluded there is no moat, just shared recipes and migrating researchers, as a freshness benchmark found only OpenAI and Anthropic keep their models' knowledge cutoffs within a year of the present.

Reporting date: 2026-07-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to July 12, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A researcher concludes there is no moat, only shared recipes and migration
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Reporting date: 2026-07-12
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-12-no-moat-just-shared-recipes
Claim: A Meta researcher concluded there is no moat, just shared recipes and migrating researchers, as a freshness benchmark found only OpenAI and Anthropic keep their models' knowledge cutoffs within a year of the present.
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- Welcome to July 12, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-12-2026
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