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# SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI

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**Published:** July 8, 2026  
**Original:** https://venturebeat.com/technology/spacexs-grok-4-5-launches-at-half-the-price-of-rivals-heres-why-that-could-rattle-anthropic-and-openai  

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## Overview

Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor, completed just weeks ago.The launch marks a pivotal test of the sprawling, vertically integrated AI empire Musk has assembled over the past six months, and of a strategy that bets developers care less about topping benchmark leaderboards than

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