#ethics

xAI has released Grok 4.5, a new AI model trained on trillions of tokens of Cursor coding data, claiming 4x better reasoning efficiency than Opus and competitive benchmark performance at a lower price. This release intensifies competition in the AI model market, especially for pricing and efficiency, but raises trust issues due to xAI's reported political bias and ethical concerns, potentially affecting enterprise adoption. Grok 4.5 is priced at $2/$6 per million tokens, compared to GPT-5.4 at $2.5/$15 and Opus 4.8 at $5/$25, and is benchmarked around Opus 4.7 level. Training included Cursor user interaction data.