Capability Convergence

Benchmark gaps between leading models have compressed steadily, and capabilities introduced as differentiators — longer context, tool use, structured output, multimodal input, reasoning modes — become table stakes within months. The pattern is consistent enough to plan around: a capability that is exclusive today is commonplace within two release cycles. The strategic implication is that architecting around a specific model's strengths builds in obsolescence, while architecting for substitution builds in the ability to take each improvement as it arrives, from whichever provider ships it first.

Because model selection in Centralpoint is a runtime decision and the index and logic are provider-independent, a new capability can be adopted by pointing at the provider that has it. Adaptations for new providers and models ship every two weeks, so convergence is absorbed as routine maintenance rather than as periodic re-platforming.