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There are now 6 labs with a better model than Google

With Grok 4.5 you never have to wait. It’s insanely fast, extremely token‑efficient, and does tasks at Fable‑level quality at a fraction of the cost.....all while being crazy fast

Q2 was an amazing quarter, with our AI investments redefining what’s possible across every part of our business. Alphabet revenue grew 24% YoY and Google Cloud accelerated to 82% growth. We saw exciting momentum across the board from Search to YouTube to the Gemini app (which reached 950M monthly active users). Our model APIs are processing 22B tokens/min (up from 16B+ last quarter) driven by our workhorse Flash models. We’re also seeing great adoption of Gemini Enterprise, used by 90% of the Fortune 100, as well as strong demand for our security solutions. Outstanding results and momentum, and such an exciting moment—thanks to all of our partners and employees around the world! 🙌 About to hop on the call!

Claude Opus 5 is coming. This week or next. What to expect: very close to Fable 5 in capability, at HALF the price, and faster. Anthropic has no choice. Opus 4.8 is way behind the frontier now. It trails GPT 5.6, trails GPT 5.5, and as of last week, trails an open source model. Kimi K3 and GPT 5.6 lit this fire. The bar I set stands: it has to be so good nobody misses Fable 5.

Announcing Ship: an endpoint with the highest intelligence per dollar of any frontier model. Today, Ship makes using Opus and GPT 5.6 Sol 50% cheaper guaranteed by a quality SLA.