The AI Race Reshuffles: Musk's Grok Catches OpenAI, Anthropic Preps for IPO, and Cognition Eyes $40B

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 just matched OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, scoring 61 and trailing only Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5. The model launched with aggressive pricing — $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens — a mid-tier rate that undercuts premium competitors while delivering comparable performance. Musk promised "something special" with Grok 4.7 arriving in three to four weeks, claiming it will "exceed...