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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 model for coding, agentic tasks

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By Reuters | Updated: July 9, 2026

July 8 (Reuters) – SpaceXAI (SPCX.O) on Wednesday launched the Grok 4.5 AI model, calling it the company’s most intelligent offering to date designed for coding and ​agentic tasks.

Here are some details:

  • SpaceXAI said Grok 4.5 was trained ‌across tens of thousands of Nvidia (NVDA.O) GB300 graphics processing units, with a focus on meticulous data filtering, deduplication and quality scoring.
  • “We’ve partnered with SpaceXAI to train Grok ​4.5,” popular AI coding agent Cursor said.
  • SpaceX said last month it ​would buy Anysphere, the startup behind Cursor, in an all-stock deal ⁠worth $60 billion to boost its presence in the lucrative enterprise AI ​tools market.
  • Grok 4.5 is immediately available through SpaceXAI’s AI coding agent, Grok ​Build, in Cursor and through the SpaceXAI console, the company’s developer portal, using an API key.
  • SpaceXAI said the EU availability is expected in mid-July.
  • Grok 4.5 is priced at $2 ​per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, the company said.
  • “It ​is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost,” SpaceX CEO Elon ‌Musk ⁠said in a post on X.
  • Musk’s AI startup xAI was acquired by SpaceX in February. He said in May that xAI would cease to exist as a separate company and would instead become SpaceXAI.
  • Rival Anthropic’s Claude ​Opus 4.8 is ​priced at $5 per ⁠million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
  • Comparatively, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna is priced at $1 per million input tokens ​and $6 per million output tokens.
  • Input tokens are the text, ​code or ⁠other data sent to an AI model, while output tokens are the text or code the model generates in response.
  • OpenAI will publicly launch its most advanced ⁠AI ​model GPT-5.6 on Thursday, following a delay ​last month prompted by U.S. government requests over national security concerns about the potential misuse of ​powerful AI technologies.

Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel

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