xAI are killing it (Grok 4.6, Image 2.0 and more...)

Better Stack
21,137 views August 29, 2026

Grok spent two years as the lab nobody serious was using. Now Grok 4.6 is second on real world task benchmarks, Grok Imagine beats Veo and Sora on their own chart, and Cursor now leads with it. There's a catch in the pricing that the API page won't show you. 🔗 Relevant Links https://x.ai/grok ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 0:00 Grok fell off, then it didn't 1:06 Grok 4.6 on the benchmarks 2:11 The cost chart, and the catch 3:40 Grok Imagine 4:29 Flyer test: ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Grok 5:21 Segments: editing one element at a time 6:09 Virtual Try-On 7:08 Turning it into video 7:45 The harness: Build, Bots and Cursor 8:55 Using Grok 4.6 in Cursor for real work 9:15 Grok Voice agent builder 10:46 Text to speech and voice cloning 11:12 Is Grok worth your time now?

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