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The measurement of language model capability through standardised test suites, and the arguments over what those scores predict about real work.
Grok 4.7 keeps Grok 4.6's $2/$6 token price yet costs $3.74 per task against $1.86, by Artificial Analysis' measurement. Teams that budget from the price sheet will undercount agent spend until they measure tokens per task on their own work.
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6.1 Sol's $2/$10 token price but costs 2.7 times as much per task, according to Artificial Analysis. Argon uses more tokens per job, so buyers still have to compare frontier models by cost per completed task.
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Opus 5.5 matched Opus 5 on two reasoning puzzles in The New Stack's tests at 43 to 69 percent lower cost. Both ran at default effort, medium on the new model and high on the old, so the saving a team sees depends on the effort level it pins.
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Meta's fourth Muse Spark in five months gains four points on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, almost entirely in agentic tests, while two scores fall and the tier Meta benchmarked against rivals is still a limited preview.
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The number came out of one harness on OpenRouter at temperature 0.9 with a 64,000-token output cap, and it holds for a bounded translation task while the same model sits mid-table on open-ended terminal work.
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