We’d love to hear your feedback. The team is focused on delivering consistent updates to Grok’s coding abilities to improve user happiness and productivity. This is just the start, and if you’re excited about our team’s mission to build the world’s best coding models, we’d love
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Grok Code Fast 1 Free Access Coding Platforms Seven Days
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For the next 7 days, Grok Code Fast 1 is available for free on popular agentic coding platforms including Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cline, opencode, Windsurf, Roo Code, and Kilo Code.
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xAI Model API Pricing: $0.20 per Million Input Tokens
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The model is generally available via the xAI API, priced at $0.20 / 1M input tokens, $1.50 / 1M output tokens, and $0.02 / 1M cached tokens.
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Grok Code Fast 1: New Fast, Economic Reasoning Model for Coding
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Introducing Grok Code Fast 1, a speedy and economical reasoning model that excels at agentic coding. Now available for free on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline, Kilo Code, Roo Code, opencode, and Windsurf.
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Transforming Knowledge for LLM-First Applications and Education
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Transforming human knowledge, sensors and actuators from human-first and human-legible to LLM-first and LLM-legible is a beautiful space with so much potential and so much can be done… One example I'm obsessed with recently – for every textbook pdf/epub, there is a perfect
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MAI-Voice-1: Expressive Natural Voice Generation Model
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Introducing MAI-Voice-1
– most expressive, natural voice generation model I've ever used (might be a bit biased)
– super efficient, generating a minute of audio in <1 second on a single GPU
– live now in Copilot Daily + Podcasts
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Databricks Unified Platform Simplifies AI-Ready Data Delivery
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Delivering AI-ready data is harder than ever — too many tools, manual code, and pipelines that don’t scale. Join Databricks’ Bilal Aslam and Simon Whiteley, CTO at @AdvAnalyticsUK
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SAS Viya Workbench: Ultimate Coding Environment for Learners
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SAS Viya Workbench for Learners is the ultimate coding environment to have in your (digital) backpack this semester. Whether you're learning, experimenting, or building, it’s the go-to platform for getting more done. Work in your preferred language, streamline your workflow,
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Software vendors face earnings pressures amid market volatility
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The TL Podcast for August 26th: Software’s not dead yet The past two weeks have brought disappointments in earnings such as Coherent and Applied Materials, but also successes such as Analog Devices and Palo Alto Networks. Commercial software vendors such as Salesforce face a
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Will Software Survive Artificial Intelligence Disruption
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Wall Street’s Best Ideas: Will software survive AI? Investors are in a panic that all of commercial software will be decimated by artificial intelligence, which can both fuel competitive startups and remove the boundaries between apps. Probably, the future belongs to a young