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Applied AI·July 8, 2026·1 min read

Elon Musk says Opus-class Grok 4.5 is about to launch

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Another “Opus-class” frontier model in market means the ceiling on what’s considered baseline assistant capability will rise again. If you’re building on a single model vendor, keep your abstraction layers clean—model churn and capability jumps are now quarterly, not annual, events.

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'The question is no longer whether organisations should adopt AI. It's whether they can explain, govern and trust the AI they've already deployed': Many companies deploying AI often end up with much bigger security issues

AI is now a security surface as much as a productivity tool—unexplained models and shadow deployments are turning into live vulnerabilities. This week, inventory where AI is in production and assign explicit ownership for model behavior, data access, and incident response.