Grok 4.5 Is 'Opus-Class' at a Third of the Price - AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #68
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| THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 68 · 20 STORIES |
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xAI Ships Grok 4.5, an 'Opus-Class' Model at a Third of the Price
Elon Musk calls Grok 4.5 an "Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost," priced at $2 per million input tokens against Anthropic and OpenAI's $5. On the same day, Databricks benchmarked coding agents on its own codebase and concluded open models now match the frontier for less, another sign that capability is cheap and judgment is the new edge. |
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