"Compute Trumps Everything" Takes a Hit as Grok 4.7 Launches to Poor Reviews
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-22
Citing a firsthand review calling Grok 4.7 "pretty terrible," teortaxesTex argues the launch undercuts the long-running thesis that compute trumps everything: xAI has money, hardware, power, and data, yet it still wasn't enough to ship a better model than Grok 4.6.
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