Fkra Editorial
Reporting and analysis from the Fkra editorial team on AI, learning, and the future of education in the MENA region.
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February delivered Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.3 Instant, and updates from xAI and Alibaba — all in roughly four weeks. Here is what the wave actually means.
Sora 2 launched in early November. Anthropic, Google, and the Chinese labs all updated their image-and-video stacks. The frontier has moved fast in 2025, and the strategic shape is clearer than it was in February.
OpenAI launched GPT-5 on August 7, 2025 — a unified model that adaptively chooses how much it thinks per request. The product structure matters as much as the model.