you think you're watching a beef, you're watching a price war with characters the episode so far: > Musk moves Tesla and SpaceX onto Grok 4.5, then accuses Sam of scamming, right on his own platform > Sam fires back: "the most reliable way to tell 5.6 sol is the best model in the world is that elon is obsessed with me again" > the two biggest egos in AI, arguing in public like a divorced couple at a wedding now the same week, with the drama muted: > xAI ships Grok 4.5 at roughly half of Opus pricing, and the Tesla memo cites token costs, not loyalty > OpenAI answers with GPT-5.6 Sol within days, straight into "best model in the world" claims > Anthropic stays silent, extends free Fable 5 access for the second time, and lets the Opus 5 rumors do the talking.. the quiet one at the table is reloading three labs, one week, and every single move is about price per task, not intelligence they fight for your attention because their models fight for your bill the feud is the marketing. the discount is the product