XAI's Grok 4.6 model demonstrates that Elon Musk has successfully caught up to frontier AI labs in just six months by acquiring Cursor and bringing in talent from SpaceX.
XAI's latest model shows rapid competitive improvement through strategic moves, challenging the assumption that only a duopoly of Anthropic and OpenAI dominates frontier AI. ✦ AI generated
Gavin Baker · All-In Podcast · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
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Now on the left, what this shows is kind of like quality or intelligence on the um y-axis and cost on the on the x- axis. So you want to be in the upper right quadrant. And you can see here you just want to be on the outside of this and you can just see like how disruptive Grock 4.6 is pricing, >> right? So as you sorry just as you move as if you move right on the x-axis it's getting cheaper and the y ais is the capability and it's getting more and more capable as you move up but they they invert the x-axis so that as you move to the top right it's better right >> exactly and I mean this is now and this is on cursor bench and xai you know SpaceX is you know almost certain you know they have a right to acquire cursor they're working with cursor so maybe this is grading your own homework well right here on the right, this is from Data Bricks, which just raised money at $190 billion. Um, this is a very real company that is very sophisticated. And you can see like even on this, you're well ahead of um, Fable 5, which you know, I think most people would would would kind of agree is the um, you know, the gold standard.
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(01:27:30) issues and we're just moving on. Gavin, last issue. What did you think of Grockbot? What did you think of the releases that XAI made this week? I guess it was Grockbot and then also it was Grock 4.6, right? And people were saying that it is close to the frontier or at the frontier but a lot cheaper. So, I've been maintaining as of even last week that we
(01:27:55) were down to a frontier lab duopoly with anthropic and open AI. Was I wrong about that? Is this number three? Is it more flexible than and fluid than I thought? >> Yeah, I think it is. I mean, I think it's Can can we show up show that graph of the prao frontier? This is pretty wild. Now on the left, what this shows is kind of like quality or intelligence
(01:28:18) on the um y-axis and cost on the on the x- axis. So you want to be in the upper right quadrant. And you can see here you just want to be on the outside of this and you can just see like how disruptive Grock 4.6 is pricing, >> right? So as you sorry just as you move as if you move right on the x-axis it's getting cheaper
(01:28:45) >> and the y ais is the capability and it's getting more and more cable as you move up but they they invert the x-axis so that >> as you move to the top right it's better right >> exactly and I mean this is now and this is on cursor bench and xai you know SpaceX is you know almost certain you know they have a right to acquire cursor