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Nathan Calvin @_NathanCalvin

— quoting @AndrewCurran_ — saved image

Nathan Calvin @_NathanCalvin · 1h
Is this all the safety information they plan to put out for this release?

Remarkably far behind peers at Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google

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Safety and capabilities

Grok 4.6's safeguards have been improved and calibrated in line with the model's capabilities.

Our safety stack is designed to maximize utility and security across legitimate use cases, allowing Grok 4.6 to be helpful and safe in domains such as vulnerability patching, accelerating the engineering design cycle, and augmenting AI research.

Our safeguard evaluation work reflects Grok 4.6's expanded capabilities, with our widest-ever suite of pre-deployment testing for capabilities and safeguard calibration, as well as extensive post-deployment third-party testing.

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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 1h
Replying to @AndrewCurran_
cursor.com/blog/grok-4-6
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

X exchange criticizing xAI's brief safety documentation for the Grok 4.6 release as thin compared to Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, quoting Grok 4.6's short 'Safety and capabilities' statement.

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Sauers @Sauers_

— quoting Poolside AI

Sauers ✓ (@Sauers_) — 1h 😭 [Embedded card]: Read 6 files (click to expand) EEP!!! THIS REPO HAS A WHOLE CLAUDE EMPIRE!!! [text cut off below] > QUOTED: Poolside ✓ (@poolsideai) — 11h > Today we're releasing the weights for Laguna M.1, our most capable model to date, with a 256K context length. Both base and post-trained ... > [Embedded thumbnail image: abstract purple/blue geometric shape, captioned "...guna M.1 is now open-weig[hts]"]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A humorous screenshot of an AI agent's exclamatory tool-output message ("THIS REPO HAS A WHOLE CLAUDE EMPIRE!!!") layered over an unrelated model-release announcement from Poolside AI for their "Laguna M.1" open-weight model.

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FleetingBits @fleetingbits

FleetingBits @fleetingbits · 1h i don't know how to express where we are in the cycle, opus 4.6 is something, feels like sonnet 3.7, the first model that made me uncomfortable i look forward to seeing what people find over the next couple of days
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet reacting to a new Claude Opus 4.6 release, comparing the unease it provokes to Sonnet 3.7's early reputation. Relevant to model individuation and capability-jump tracking that Nathan follows across Claude generations.

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