SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 Scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cursor, since Grok 4.5, has had an incredible deal for frontier level models, their subscription now goes way further than OpenAI or Anthropic. Even on their lower tier plans you can use a lot tokens on their of their first party models (Grok and Composer) and not really run out comparatively. Combine them with an orchestrator and implementor type setup and it goes even further.

I have never met a single human being who uses Grok for coding

Grok is not the best model around, but it's decent. It gets the basic job done at a low price. I don't think it can advance frontier Math, yet.

SpaceXAI is the only frontier model company that had its own compute/date centres and soon chip making factory, I think they will pull ahead with cheaper tokens similar intelligence and better harness/tools. Grok build is 2-5x faster than Claude Code in my opinion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274027 what happened here?

no dupe?

Why is Grok so much cheaper than Claude or GPT?

Seems the cache read pricing almost doubled from $0.30 in Grok 4.5 to $0.50 in Grok 4.6.

In my experience in heavy coding sessions most pricing is just cache read and cache write like 80% of my token bill.

Interesting. Grok 4.5 is a capable model, although not quite at Fable/Sol levels. Will be interesting to see how this holds up. Musk appears to have made a savvy choice buying Cursor's data.

I often wonder if there's a chance, even if minimal... that they stole the weights of the Anthropic models they run on their datacenter... or are actively destillating it.

I’m perpetually surprised people feel comfortable sending their code to an LLM that was made to call itself MechaHitler. I wouldn’t touch grok or now cursor with a 10 foot pole