Grok 4.6

@theoSep 22

Grok 4.5 was an incredible model for the price: fast, pleasant to use, reliable, solid default model. Grok 4.6 was a (forgivable) step in the wrong direction IMO: slower and more expensive, using way more tokens per task for a slight edge in intelligence. I get it, though. They have to climb benchmarks. Grok 4.7 is much harder to forgive. They claimed it would be more token-efficient, and it's less by 30 to 80%. It scores worse than Grok 4.6 in various benchmarks. It's slower, it's less pleasant to use, and real-world costs come out to more than 2x above Grok 4.6, putting it over Astra's costs in real-world use. Considering how much they've been hyping this model release up, I have to say I'm disappointed. The benchmarks don't tell the whole story, and it is pleasant to use in various real-world engineering tasks, but it feels so 2025 still. The frontend capabilities are unacceptably bad. The 3D capabilities are nonexistent. It gets stuck in random Gemini-style loops all the time. This was a very disappointing release. I hope that the SpaceXAI team can acknowledge that and impress us with the next one.

@mtsliveSep 21

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Grok 4.7 beats GPT-6 Astra on real-world tasks, and it's 5x cheaper. • Same price as 4.6, $2 input and $6 output per million tokens, well under Sol, Fable, and Astra • A new larger base model, which Elon has put at 2.1 trillion parameters, up from 1.5 trillion, with extra training on SpaceX data • Trained to natively understand the Grok Bot harness, the same move Anthropic made with Claude Code • Leads on electrical engineering and Harvey's legal benchmark, beats Astra Max on GDPval, trails on software engineering • @elonmusk: "Grok 4.7 places SpaceXAI as third after Anthropic and OpenAI for agentic coding. When factoring in that Grok is significantly faster and lower cost, it's a great choice for your everyday workhorse" @theojaffee: "SpaceX has a huge amount of data on real world hardware problems, real world engineering. So I bet Grok models are going to be better at rocketry engineering than any of the other models out there."

@alexfinnSep 21

It happened. Grok 4.7 dropped Better intelligence than Opus 5. Half the price Fully baked into my favorite AI agent harness at the moment: Grok Bot If you haven't tried using cloud cursor agents inside Grok Bot, now is by far the best time to do it Choose a project you want to work on, connect your github, ask a grok bot to do work on it It will spin up Cursor cloud agents and write code in the cloud. Lightning fast and incredibly smart I recommend using a project management tools like Linear or Notion to make a bunch of tasks first, then have cloud agents just tear through them all 1 by 1. You'll get a massive amount of work done without much oversight. Big opportunity to lock in right now and get ahead of the curve with new tech Take my steps up above and get to it

@ericzakariassonSep 19

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just in time harness sometimes when i want to build a long running projcet, i vibe code new harnesses to support the use case. e.g, this week i wanted to really push grok 4.6 by building an age of empire clone that looks polished. i wanted this to run on a vm, report me screenshots of the progress, playtest the game etc etc. if it happened to crash, i wanted it to restart and ping me in slack i also wanted this harness to parallelize as much work as possible, and to be efficient. so i asked cursor to help build a harness to accomplish this. under the hood, it uses the cursor sdk to work of the long list of tasks that was put in a dag (3000+) when the harness was built, i could quickly glance over it to see how confident i'd be in it succeeding or not. when i was happy, i started it and let it run. right now, its still going! can be worth trying out