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Model version described as launching the day before the merger closed and cited as a preview of combined engineering work.
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Dan Hendrycks released a benchmark that scores nine frontier agents between 43.7% and 82.5% for crossing a task's stated boundary. Every one of those environments was built with the shortcut left in reach.
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Grok 4.7 keeps Grok 4.6's $2/$6 token price yet costs $3.74 per task against $1.86, by Artificial Analysis' measurement. Teams that budget from the price sheet will undercount agent spend until they measure tokens per task on their own work.
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Amazon Bedrock now serves xAI's 500K-token-context Grok 4.7 through the Responses, Chat Completions and Converse APIs. Trying it from an existing client takes little code, though Artificial Analysis found its gains cost about twice the output tokens per task.
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The option was written in April, before the June IPO. Exercising it turned newly listed shares into acquisition currency at a price no cash balance would have cleared.
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SpaceX has closed its $60bn purchase of Cursor. Cursor's own note argues the GPU fleet makes its models cheaper to serve, and commits to no leadership or product change.
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Grok 4.7 arrived on Monday after five walked-back timelines, with 40% more parameters and Grok 4.6's list price intact. Cursor's own cost chart still puts its price per task above GPT-6 Astra and Claude Sonnet 5.
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xAI built Grok 4.7 on a larger base model with a longer reinforcement-learning run and kept the API at Grok 4.6's rates. The open question for buyers is how many tokens the longer runs burn.
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Both terminal agents recalled planted facts inside a single project across three two-session tests on identical Node repos. Only Grok Build carried a stated convention into an unrelated repo, at about a third of the reported cost.
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Musk said the delayed Grok 4.7 should be roughly on par with Opus 5.0, not 5.1. Parity with what Anthropic and OpenAI already sell he put two versions further up the ladder, at Grok 4.9.
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The model averages 53 steps a run against SWE-1.7's 127, and Cognition says its mean rollout cost is 64% below Fable 5.1's on a leaderboard Cognition built, runs and grades. Reproducing that takes Devin's harness.
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A 61 on Artificial Analysis's index no longer requires flagship pricing. That changes what agent workloads should cost this quarter. The same release also grew dearer than its own predecessor and slipped on two evaluations.
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Nineteen days after the same model name produced repetition loops and phantom missing files, the served checkpoint refused 59.2% of concealed-hazard tasks. That makes third-party refusal testing a running job, not a procurement step.
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Aikido spent 11.7 billion tokens rediscovering 32 fresh CVEs with ten models, three attempts each. The number that should move a scanning budget is the marginal cost of the second and third pass.
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Two weeks after release, Grok sits in Microsoft's, Amazon's and Google's catalogs. The Foundry listing is a public preview, which is not what the Bedrock deployment got.
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Artificial Analysis puts Grok 4.6 at 61 on its Intelligence Index, level with GPT-5.6 Sol, at $2/$6 per million tokens. The same pages record 48 seconds to first token.
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SpaceXAI opened its prompt-to-app builder to every Grok plan on August 19 and wired publishing straight into the X feed. The pressure on rivals lands on distribution.
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A denial of a Bloomberg report on SpaceX buying Cognition leaves the compute relationship unaddressed, and leaves buyers choosing coding tools from a shrinking independent field.
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Seven days after launch, xAI's flagship sits inside AWS procurement with a 500K context and four reasoning tiers. The rate card is flat; the effort dial is where the cost moves.
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Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM-5.3 all chase agents that stay on task. The pricing underneath them is moving faster than the benchmarks.
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A production test across 15 models put seven of them inside a one-point spread on pass rate. On constrained payroll work, the price premium bought speed, not correctness.
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