The AI frontier is moving fast.
But the open-model ecosystem is catching up.
When DeepSeek first broke through in 2025, the gap was still there.
Not years.
Months.
And now OpenRouter says a fusion of Gemini 3 Flash, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek V4 Pro surpassed every frontier model and came within 1% of Fable 5.
And the U.S. government just restricted access to Fable 5.
What used to be measured in months is now measured in weeks.