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Grok 4.6

xAI's August 2026 model, reported to rejoin the frontier at a fraction of the cost and on par with GPT-5.6 Sol Max.

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Welcome to August 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Grok 4.6 is xAI’s August 2026 release (xAI). The newsletter records it rejoining the frontier at a fraction of the cost and on par with GPT-5.6 Sol Max, with Elon Musk promising a SpaceX-data-marinated 4.7 within a month. It follows Grok 4.20 in the corpus’s Grok lineage.

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2026-08-13: A co-founder reportedly steers resources toward recursive self-improvement

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Grok 4.6
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/systems/grok-4-6
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- Welcome to August 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-13-2026
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