Grok 4.5 Matches Claude Opus at 1/4 the Token Cost
ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for July 19th, 2026. xAI is claiming Grok 4.5 matches Claude Opus 4.8 on coding — at a quarter of the token cost — and real-world tests on a Rust repo are backing that up. SARAH: That's a genuinely uncomfortable number for Anthropic, especially given everything…
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