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Composite index on which xAI reported 61 for Grok 4.6, matching GPT-5.6 Sol and one point behind Claude Fable 5.
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Artificial Analysis puts OpenAI's new reasoning model at three times the index score of its price-tier peers and more than twice their token appetite. The output line dominates the invoice.
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Z.ai says every gain over GLM-5.2 came from post-training on broader production workflows. Whether that transfers to your stack is not something its private benchmark can tell you.
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Alibaba's Apache-2.0 Qwen3.8-27B fits in about 17GB and matched near-frontier scores, per Artificial Analysis. It also burned 3.7x the median output tokens getting there.
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A new cost analysis puts OpenAI's frontier model at half Anthropic's price per benchmark task. The retry and cleanup arithmetic behind that number is less settled than the price sheet.
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Seoul passed Upstage, SK Telecom and LG AI Research on August 18 and eliminated Motif, whose model topped the intelligence index but scored lowest on whether people could use it.
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Z.ai claims frontier agentic-coding scores at about 750B parameters, a third of Kimi K3, from extended post-training on the GLM-5.2 base. Open weights are promised in two weeks.
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Grok 4.6, Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek V4-Pro shipped inside about 24 hours, and two of the three came with downloadable weights. The benchmarks existed to justify a cheaper invoice.
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GitHub added xAI's model to Copilot on August 14 across eight developer surfaces at usage-based pricing. The benchmark case, including xAI's own terminal scores, is mixed.
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