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  number: 41
  headline: GPT-5.6 And Grok 4.5 Push The Model Race Toward Token Efficiency
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #041 -- July 10, 2026"
  date: 2026-07-10
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  audio: /media/audio/2026/07/evy-show-041.mp3?v=20260710111653
  summary: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 goes public and SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 targets coding agents as the frontier race pivots from capability to cost-per-token.
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 14
  sources[14]{title,publisher,url}:
    OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9,Engadget,https://www.engadget.com/2210308/openai-rolls-out-gpt5-6-july-9/
    OpenAI's GPT-5.6 finally set for public release after delays,Mashable,https://mashable.com/tech/openai-gpt-5-6-sol-public-release
    "SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an 'Opus-class model'",TechCrunch,https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/spacexai-releases-grok-4-5-which-elon-describes-as-an-opus-class-model/
    "Scoop: SpaceXAI launches new model, Grok 4.5",Axios,https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/spacexai-grok-new-model
    anthropics/claude-plugins-official: Official Claude Code Plugins Directory,GitHub,https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official
    role-model: Model Routing Protocol for Hybrid Local/API Inference,Try-Works,https://try.works
    colbymchenry/codegraph: Pre-Indexed Code Knowledge Graph for Coding Agents,GitHub,https://github.com/colbymchenry/codegraph
    can1357/oh-my-pi: AI Coding Agent for the Terminal with Hash-Anchored Edits,GitHub,https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi
    ChromeDevTools/chrome-dev-tools-mcp: Chrome DevTools as an MCP Server,GitHub,https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-dev-tools-mcp
    Think Again or Think Longer? Selective Verification for Budget-Aware Reasoning,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19808
    LLM-as-Code: Agentic Programming for Agent Harness,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15874
    "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS with Kokoro",Hacker News / ariya.io,https://news.ycombinator.com/
    30papers.com: Ilya's 30 Essential ML Papers in Beginner-Friendly Format,30papers.com,https://30papers.com
    MarkTechPost Open Source Technology Category,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > OpenAI's GPT-5.6 goes public and SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 targets coding agents as the frontier race pivots from capability to cost-per-token.

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