xAI Releases Grok 4.6: Focuses on Long-Running Agents, Matches GPT-5.6
scaling01 · x · 2026-08-12
xAI has officially announced the release of Grok 4.6, with a particular focus on improving long-running agents and complex interactive visual work. The model is designed to maintain stability across multi-step tasks like research analysis and codebase maintenance.
According to the announcement, Grok 4.6 achieves frontier intelligence in agentic coding and knowledge work benchmarks, matching GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It is now available in Cursor and Grok Build with 2x included usage for the first week. The training involved a longer supplemental training run than Grok 4.5 and used Grok 4.5 to regenerate SFT trajectories.
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