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SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 on 21 September 2026. Its own table puts the model first on EEBench and the Harvey legal bench at $2 and $6 per million tokens, while Fable 5.1 keeps the coding leads.
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About $0.042 per million input tokens; output is free. Calls land in tens to hundreds of milliseconds on TypeSafe's figures. Its accuracy claims mostly mean matching big chat models on typed questions, not a human grade.
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The Texas contractor's in-house AI assistant now reaches 705 people a month and reads Procore, scheduling, estimating and Microsoft 365, by company figures published Sept. 1–2, 2026. The counts are the company's own and unaudited.
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A roofing contractor put the new persistent agent on a permit, an inspection booking and insurer notifications. The useful part is the handoff, and the limit.
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Business AI plans can keep company files out of model training and still retain prompts, uploads, or application state. Contractors need the exact rule for each product, feature, and data class before a project file enters the chat.
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A value-engineering pass cut the division totals and left the line items alone. The desk that caught it now keeps the arithmetic in code and the prices in a cost book that a person approves.
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A chatbot caught a missing pizza-oven hood in a subcontractor proposal. The tool that grew out of that afternoon marks every scope item present, missing, or ambiguous, and treats ambiguous as an answer.
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Procore agreed to buy DroneDeploy on 29 July 2026, the day it reported its first GAAP operating profit. Its agents could read every document on a project. They could not see the work.
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