xAI releases grok-code-fast-1
grok-code-fast-1 released — an agentic coding model; $0.20/M input and $1.50/M output; 70.8% on SWE-Bench-Verified (the announcement states this was measured with xAI's own harness)
Why it matters
A strategy of giving away a low-cost coding model through Copilot, Cursor, Cline and others to win market share first
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Officialx.aihttps://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week