API Pricing AI News & Updates
xAI Releases Grok 3 API with Reasoning Capabilities at Premium Pricing
Elon Musk's AI company xAI has launched an API for its flagship Grok 3 model, offering both standard and mini versions with reasoning capabilities. The pricing is relatively high compared to competitors, with Grok 3 costing $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, while also falling short of previously claimed capabilities like its context window.
Skynet Chance (+0.01%): While Grok 3's release adds another advanced AI model to the ecosystem, its capabilities appear comparable to existing models rather than representing a significant breakthrough that would increase existential risk from advanced AI.
Skynet Date (+0 days): Grok 3's capabilities and pricing positioning suggest it's keeping pace with industry developments rather than accelerating or decelerating timelines toward potentially unsafe AI scenarios.
AGI Progress (+0.01%): The addition of reasoning capabilities to Grok 3 represents incremental progress in AI reasoning abilities, though benchmark reports suggest it's not outperforming existing leading models in a way that significantly advances the field toward AGI.
AGI Date (+0 days): As xAI appears to be following rather than leading the development curve with capabilities comparable to existing models, Grok 3's release doesn't meaningfully affect expected AGI timelines.
OpenAI Releases Premium o1-pro Model at Record-Breaking Price Point
OpenAI has released o1-pro, an enhanced version of its reasoning-focused o1 model, to select API developers. The model costs $150 per million input tokens and $600 per million output tokens, making it OpenAI's most expensive model to date, with prices far exceeding GPT-4.5 and the standard o1 model.
Skynet Chance (+0.01%): While the extreme pricing suggests somewhat improved reasoning capabilities, early benchmarks and user experiences indicate the model isn't a revolutionary breakthrough in autonomous reasoning that would significantly increase AI risk profiles.
Skynet Date (+0 days): The minor improvements over the base o1 model, despite significantly higher compute usage and extreme pricing, suggest diminishing returns on scaling current approaches, neither accelerating nor decelerating the timeline to potentially risky AI capabilities.
AGI Progress (+0.01%): Despite mixed early reception, o1-pro represents OpenAI's continued focus on improving reasoning capabilities through increased compute, which incrementally advances the field toward more robust problem-solving capabilities even if performance gains are modest.
AGI Date (+0 days): The minimal performance improvements despite significantly increased compute resources suggest diminishing returns on current approaches, potentially indicating that the path to AGI may be longer than some predictions suggest.