Grok 4.7: Better Self-Testing, but Progress Comes at a Cost

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Grok 4.7: Better Self-Testing, but Progress Comes at a Cost Grok 4.7 is closing the gap, but not cheaply. In Zhihu contributor toyama nao's tests, stronger hallucination control came with average token usage of 90K-150K on those tasks. Coding agents that actually test their work Grok has progressed from skipping self-tests in 4.5 to basic compilation checks in 4.6, then simulator use and test-case writing in 4.7. But this improvement does not generalize consistently beyond standard web frontends. Visual design also remains rough compared with peers. Better scores, with a comparison caveat Th
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