It's important to note that this was all tested on the X2 Elite Extreme configuration, which comes with six additional CPU cores over the standard X2 Elite. There were no X2 Elite systems to test, so we don't know what those multi-core scores will be. I've been told that GPU performance will also scale up on the X2 Elite, but we don't yet know how much faster the X2 Elite Extreme is over its sibling.
xAI has introduced Grok 4 Fast, a new reasoning model designed for efficiency and lower cost. The model reduces average thinking tokens by 40% compared with Grok 4, which brings an estimated 98% decrease in cost for equivalent benchmark performance. It maintains a 2-million token context window and a unified architecture that supports both reasoning and non-reasoning use cases. The model also integrates tool-use capabilities such as web browsing and X search.
CrowdStrike and Meta are jointly introducing CyberSOCEval, a new suite of open source benchmarks to evaluate the performance of AI systems in security operations. The collaboration aims to help organizations select more effective AI tools for their Security Operations Center. Meta and CrowdStrike are addressing a growing challenge by introducing CyberSOCEval, a suite of benchmarks that help define what effective AI looks like for cyber defense. The system is built on Meta's open source CyberSecEval framework and CrowdStrike's frontline threat intelligence.