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12 August
xAI releases Grok 4.6, an update to Grok 4.5 focused on long-running agents, interactive and visual work, achieving frontier intelligence on several benchmarks, available in Cursor, Grok Build, API, and partners, with pricing starting at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.
13 August
OpenAI announces the appointment of Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer, leading its global revenue organization. The announcement highlights the company's growth and the transition of Denise Dresser, who will leave after a transition period. It also mentions a strategic partnership with Chad Peets and RPT Partners to support go-to-market efforts.
14 August
Anthropic announces that future Claude models will include a text watermark to comply with the EU AI Act, using a method based on SynthID-Text that does not affect output quality, readability, or cost, and is undetectable to readers.
In the Hugging Face Hub, the top 25 models by downloads and the top 25 by likes share only one repository, indicating that attention (likes) and adoption (downloads) measure different things.
15 August
PerplexityPricing change16 August
