They're going to have quite a tall ladder to climb to become the "top model". Currently on LMArena they're nowhere near the top [0] in any of the important categories.

[0] https://arena.ai/leaderboard

Musk's 'capital power' is spread thinly, as both xAI and SpaceX need ongoing enormous funding and have debts.

Google raised the same amount as SpaceX IPO at the same time, it just didn't get as much attention outside of financial and tech press

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/03/alphabets-record-breaking-...

The other big players (MS/Goog/Meta) have solid businesses already and both OpenAi and Anthropic are IPO'ing soon.

Musk over bought compute and is renting it out, many of the co-founders of XAI have quit, so doubt they will dominate any time soon.

The coding index is at 51 while the others are at 75

> grok build is going to be the future coding model of choice

This is a BIG statement, especially considering current benchmark scores, can you expand more, why do you think so?

What a weird thing to suggest. This model is worse than some Chinese models from last year, which were already worse than frontier models from last year.

This looks like a worse Deepseek V4 pro. Costs more, dumber, slower and more verbose than most modern Chinese releases.

Seeing how those Chinese releases are in various states of open source, I would hope a competitor could at least match them.