Nit: scientists have the same reasons to do so now, the same as ever. They just have additional reasons to not do so.

But even that distinction is only temporary, since we're determined to piss away any remaining research lead that draws people in.

Hopefully the next administration will work at actively reversing the damage, with incentives beyond just "we pinky-promise not to haul you at gunpoint to a concrete detention center and then deport you to Yemen".

> Scientists who might have come to the US three years ago have little reason to do so now.

Been saying that about EU and China for decades now.

Yet the top European and Chinese still come to the US. Even in April 2026.

It's kind of hard to say this unless you go out of your way - the scaffolding for interacting with the raw model is a lot better now for many tasks. Is it that 4.7 is so much better than 4.5 or claude 1.119 is so much tuned to squeeze utility out of the LLM despite the hallucinations and lack of self awareness etc. Certainly the current products are great, but I think it's hard to separate the two things, the raw model and the agent workflow constraining the model towards utility.

Since Gemini 3.1 Pro is considered to be at frontier and GLM 5.1 does better than it in coding benchmarks it would be fair to say GLM 5.1 is a frontier model.