Same Score, Third of the Price
Friday's news was almost entirely about price. Grok 4.6 posted the same score as Claude Fable 5 on Perplexity's WANDR benchmark at a third of the cost, Gemini 3.7 Flash shipped at half the price of 3.6 Flash, and OpenAI previewed a Sol variant whose pitch is latency rather than intelligence. Underneath that, two Apache-2.0 open-weight releases and a mathematical bound that a model broke and then refused to believe.
Perplexity ran Grok 4.6 and Claude Fable 5 on its WANDR agentic-search benchmark: identical 0.496 scores, $7.58 per task versus $20.30. Perplexity has no stake in xAI, which is…
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