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Grok 4.6 Ties Sol on Intelligence. Cost Still Wins.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12 — same $2/$6 list as 4.5, tied with GPT-5.6 Sol on Artificial Analysis, cheaper per finished task.
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Kimi K3: The First Open 3T-Class Model Reaches the Frontier's Edge
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 — 2.8 trillion parameters, native vision, and a 1M-token context window, live in the API now with open weights promised by July 27. Benchmarks, pricing, the self-hosting reality, and what still needs independent verification.
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Grok 4.5: Faster, Cheaper Coding Near the Opus Tier
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 8 — co-trained with Cursor, served at flash-class speed, priced at $2/$6 per million tokens, and aimed at coding agents rather than chat. Benchmarks, latency, pricing, and what still needs independent verification.