The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

Between November 2025 and May 2026, large language models underwent significant developments, particularly a "November 2025 inflection point" where coding agents dramatically improved from unreliable to production-ready through reinforcement learning techniques, enabling them to serve as daily tools for developers. During this period, the "best" model title rapidly shifted between Claude Opus, GPT-5.1, and Gemini 3, while a project called Warelay (later renamed OpenClaw) emerged and quickly gained widespread attention as a personal AI assistant, sparking a new category of tools known as "Claws."