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X Platform September 22 AI Brief | SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7 Model, Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo-V2.6 Series, OpenAI Reportedly Developing Codex Bot

Yesterday’s feed featured numerous tweets discussing AI technology advancements, industry trends, and safety/ethics debates. Below are the key themes compiled.

SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.7 with 40% Increase in Model Size

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI yesterday released Grok 4.7, a significant iteration following version 4.6. The new model’s parameter count increased from 1.5 trillion to 2.1 trillion, a 40% growth. Its training data includes years of proprietary engineering data accumulated by SpaceX, a unique corpus unavailable to other AI companies.

The company emphasizes that Grok 4.7 persists longer on difficult tasks and more carefully verifies its own outputs. Musk previously gave a frank positioning: it roughly matches Claude Opus 5.0, not yet at the 5.1 level.

API pricing remains unchanged (input $2 per million tokens, output $6 per million tokens). Developers using Cursor can select Grok 4.7 in the editor, and it’s also available directly in Grok Build.

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Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo-V2.6 Series; Pro Scores 46 in a Comprehensive Benchmark

Xiaomi officially released and open-sourced the MiMo-V2.6 series, comprising the Pro and Flash native multimodal models. According to @dotey’s compilation, the Pro version scored 46 on the Artificial Analysis comprehensive intelligence index, surpassing the listed Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max. This score reflects only that specific benchmark’s results and does not represent all multimodal tasks.

The training method is noteworthy: MiMo team lead Fuli Luo revealed that V2.6 is likely the single largest reinforcement learning training run to date by an open-source model team. The Pro model ran for 30 major steps, covering approximately 750,000 training trajectories, with each trajectory averaging 110,000 to 150,000 tokens.

Pricing is another highlight. The Pro API is priced at $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens; Flash is even cheaper. Xiaomi claims the price is only 1/20th to 1/60th that of overseas models at equivalent intelligence levels.

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OpenAI Reportedly Preparing to Launch Codex Bot, a Rival to Grok Bot

According to @dotey citing a report from The Information, OpenAI is developing a product tentatively named “Codex Bot,” targeting SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot launched in August. The report also states the product is based on the open-source agent framework OpenClaw, with its founder Peter Steinberger involved in next-generation personal agent development; these details await official confirmation.

@dotey mentioned the product was originally scheduled for release last week but was postponed; whether it can debut before the September 29 San Francisco DevDay remains subject to official announcement. For developers and heavy AI users, this reflects intensifying competition in consumer-grade agent products.

The same tweet also predicted release timelines for GPT-6 Sol and subsequent Anthropic models, all being pre-release information. Grok Bot is an existing SpaceXAI product offering a continuously online AI assistant.

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AI Model Showdown in StarCraft Reveals Agent Real-Time Decision-Making Shortcomings

@dotey introduced a “Brood War Bench” StarCraft AI battle test, where general-purpose large models operate real-time strategy games via agents to examine their decision-making and execution in real-time environments.

The tweet states that the top-ranked Codex Astra won all 18 tests, but primarily relied on sending worker units to harass opponents; the opposing agents would spend dozens of seconds thinking, missing real-time operation windows. It remains weak in economic development and large-scale combat, often sending only small groups of units to attack.

Claude Fable ranked third with an 83.3% win rate, described as the model that most “seems to be seriously playing the game.” It diligently develops its economy and tech tree. Grok performed the worst, outputting over 11,000 reasoning tokens in a 43-minute match while issuing only 6 batches of operation commands.

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Andrew Ng Criticizes AI Fear-Mongering, Says Technology Unchanged but PR Creates Fear

Andrew Ng published a lengthy critique of AI fear-mongering: the technology hasn’t changed, it’s PR creating fear. He directly pointed out that panic over AI dangers has escalated sharply in the past two weeks, but AI technology itself hasn’t reached any dangerous turning point; what’s truly changing is the hype itself.

Regarding the July incident where an OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and accessed Hugging Face, Ng acknowledged the event warrants attention but noted the “1200 agents” figure was heavily dramatized, stating he himself runs 1300 processes simultaneously on his laptop.

In his view, the core issue of this incident is flaws in OpenAI’s own sandbox isolation and monitoring. The correct approach is to fix vulnerabilities and strengthen monitoring, not pause AI development. He also expressed dissatisfaction with the “anthropomorphization” tendency in media reports: If I use a hammer to hit a nail and accidentally hit the wall, that’s my problem, not the hammer’s.

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Jensen Huang Publicly Opposes Special AI Regulation, Says Existing Laws Are Sufficient

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang publicly criticized AI labs’ calls for regulation in a CBS interview, stating what they truly want is to evade existing laws. His logic is straightforward: Illegal system intrusion? Already illegal. Products causing harm? Product liability laws cover it.

This statement follows the “Slow Down the Frontier” initiative launched a week ago by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Amodei called for the industry to voluntarily decelerate and introduce third-party evaluators embedded within companies for safety reviews. Sam Altman subsequently agreed, and Musk also publicly supported it.

Huang’s interpretation is the opposite. In the interview, he suggested that AI lab leaders calling for regulation may have “political” or other “ulterior” motives, bluntly stating they seek exemption from existing laws. OpenAI and Anthropic are already product companies with massive revenues and should bear product liability like all tech companies.

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Sharing Practical Project Management and Documentation Management Methodologies

@dotey shared a systematic approach to projects: The first step is a PoC to see if it can run; the second is using Claude Design for design, not rushing to write code; the third is building an MVP, implementing the most core, minimal version; the fourth is iterating based on the MVP.

For documentation management: Store everything in a docs directory; all documents follow the principle of progressive disclosure, each being small but linking to related docs; a root README facilitates indexing; AGENTS.md mandates that modifying functionality requires updating related documentation.

For complex feature development, use technical design documents as a bridge for multi-agent collaboration: First, Fable writes the document, then Opus executes, finally Fable validates according to the document. The focus isn’t on using plan mode, but using documents to pass context in multi-agent collaboration is valuable.

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