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One is a real benchmark.

The other is a tweet.

“Grok 4.6 reaches 1753 ELO and is #1 on the Databricks leaderboard, at half the price of rival frontier models.”

Elon Musk / xAI, 12 August 2026

Recorded 13 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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Receipts pack

The evidence file for this verdict

9 receipts: 3 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 5 add context. 3 figures on the record, 2 traced to a quoted receipt.

The receipts

Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

  1. 1Contextartificialanalysis.ai ↗

    achieves a GDPval-AA v2 Elo of 1753, behind only Claude Opus 5

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  2. 2Contextartificialanalysis.ai ↗

    It scores 61, in line with GPT-5.6 Sol (max), behind Claude Opus 5 (max, 63) and Claude Fable 5 (max with fallback, 62)

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  3. 3Contradicts the claimexplainx.ai ↗

    That number is not in SpaceXAI's published table.

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  4. 4Contextexplainx.ai ↗

    Treat it as a founder claim until Databricks or a third party reproduces it.

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  5. 5Supports the claimcryptobriefing.com ↗

    Grok 4.6 scored 1,753 on GDPVal AA v2 compared with 1,728 for GPT 5.6 Sol Max

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  6. 6Contextgithub.com ↗

    Opus 5 and Antigravity Gemini 3.1 Pro (denoted by *) results updated August 2 2026

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  7. 7Contextgithub.com ↗

    Headline results on OfficeQA Pro (N=133), followed by OfficeQA Pro V2 (N=90)

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  8. 8Supports the claimeesel.ai ↗

    charging $2/$6 per million tokens against Sol's $5/$30

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  9. 9Supports the claimeesel.ai ↗

    Claude Opus 5 is $5/$25

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