Grok 4.6 Day One: Beats Open Source, Claims #3 Spot
bindureddy · x · 2026-08-13
The author shared their first-day experience with Grok 4.6, noting it is significantly better than version 4.5 and beats all open-source models in real-world problems.
In the current AI landscape, the author ranks Grok in the #3 spot, right behind Anthropic and OpenAI. They also observed that Google has now fallen to #5, trailing behind open-source AI.
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