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Musk and Zuckerberg claw back into AI race with new model momentum
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have muscled their way back into AI's elite ranks, defying early obituaries to close the gap on a new generation of Silicon Valley startups.
Key facts
- Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have muscled their way back into AI's elite ranks, defying early obituaries to close the gap on a new generation of Silicon Valley startups
- Turbulence at Google could create an opening for either company to seize its place as Wall Street's public-market AI champion
- The AI race is starting to reward more than raw intelligence, as price becomes a decisive advantage for many users
- Meta, meanwhile, is trying to squeeze the frontier
Summary
Recent gains by tech giants SpaceX and Meta, long stuck in AI's second tier, are putting new pressure on a hierarchy dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic. Both companies released models this week featuring a combination of performance and price that would have been hard to imagine from either lab a year ago. SpaceX's Grok 4.6 scored even with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the closely watched Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and behind Anthropic's Fable 5 Max. Promising "something special," Musk said Grok 4.7 should arrive in three to four weeks and predicted it will "exceed all current models" after additional training on a massive trove of SpaceX data.