SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI
Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor, completed just weeks ago.The launch marks a pivotal test of the sprawling, vertically integrated AI empire Musk has assembled over the past six months, and of a strategy that bets developers care less about topping benchmark leaderboards than about speed, cost, and whether a model can actually do the work."Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents," the company said in a post on X. "It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficienc [...]
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