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Re:Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity a... by guywithahat on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:10PM (#48418345)
I've used/use it. For a while it had one of the best lightweight coding LLM's, which actually lead to a #1 spot on openrouter usage ranking although they've fallen off the top 10 used now. It's also provided some good reasoning models, which perform better when dealing with non-PC topics.

Also, although I've never used it for this, I believe some of the paid models produce some of the best "adult" content, and I know there are even subreddits which do nothing but praise Grok and "content" produces who use it.

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Re:Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity a... by nikcub on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:16PM (#48418436)
> which actually lead to a #1 spot on openrouter usage

that was only because it was free

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Re:Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity a... by infecto on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:32PM (#48418619)
+1. The coding model was fine and it was fast but the fact that it was free was a massive boost.
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Re:Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity a... by yread on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:16PM (#48418434)
> reasoning ... with non-PC topics

do you have examples? Do you ask "reason why women belong in the kitchen" or what?

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Re:Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity a... by guywithahat on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:13PM (#48419028)
Without giving too many details I thought it would be fun to make 2D games based off of banned books (sort of as a marketing ploy, paradoxically everybody likes banned books). Camp of the saints seemed like a good target, which is a fictional book based in 1980's France dealing with incoming flotillas of immigration. I found that ChatGPT would push back on the premise of the novel instead of coding, while grok models just called things "edgy" and went to work.

I have more examples (mostly dealing with realtime web filtering) but that's the immediate one that comes to mind.

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