You can stop wondering whether to switch to Grok. The answer's no. Open it for one job, and it's the job nothing else does.
Grok 4.7 shipped on Monday, September 21, after four missed dates and a "needs a few more days to cook" from Musk on September 11. 2.1 trillion parameters, 40% bigger than 4.6, same price, same speed. xAI's own line is "a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed".
On the scoreboards it comes second, consistently. Second to Claude Fable 5.1 on professional work (1695 to 1735 on GDPval), second on multi-hour office tasks, behind GPT-6 Astra on coding. Second at a third of the price if you pay by the token: $2 in and $6 out per million, against $10 and $50 for the two ahead of it.
Where you can open it today
Three places today: Cursor, Grok Build, and the API. In the Grok app and on X, not every place has switched yet, so open Settings and read the model name before you assume you're on 4.7. If it says 4.6, wait a day.
Plans, for the app: free Grok has real-time web and X search, voice, and connectors. SuperGrok is $30 a month, SuperGrok Plus $100. X Premium is $8 with higher Grok limits, Premium+ $40 with SuperGrok bundled in.
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Right. Back to it.
The one job
Live X. Nothing else reads the firehose. When something is happening right now (a launch, an outage, a story breaking, what people actually think of a product this morning), ChatGPT and Claude give you yesterday's web. Grok gives you the last hour of posts, with the posts.
That's a real job. It's the research step before a decision that has a clock on it: is this supplier having a bad week, did that tool just break for everyone or only for me, what's the reaction to the thing I'm about to post about.
In free Grok:
Search X and the web for the last 24 hours on [topic]. Give me: what happened, in order, with times. The three most-shared posts and who posted them. What people are actually saying, in their words, three quotes. Then one line: is this real or is it noise. Link every claim.Read the quotes before the summary. The summary is the model's opinion, the quotes are the room.
What not to do
Don't move your business over. The folder, the memory, the projects and the scheduled tasks you've built up in ChatGPT or Claude are worth more than a few benchmark points, because the setup is the skill, not the model. I think model-hopping is the most expensive habit in this space: you pay in re-setup every time, and the gap between the top three closes again in six weeks anyway.
It's a second-place model with first-place search. Use it for the search.
Make it stick
Grok has Workspaces, its version of a saved project with standing instructions. Make one called "Right now", paste the prompt above as its instruction, and from then on it's a one-line question: what's happening with [x].
That's one tool doing the one job it's best at. A company run by one person is built that way on purpose: every tool has exactly one job, and the setup decides which.
The One-Person Company Playbook is the complete build: the folder that holds your business, the brief that runs it, thirty AI roles on staff, six jobs that run on a clock, and the path to your first paying customers. Works on Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, whichever you already pay for. About eight hours over a weekend to set up. $97, one-time, updated when the tools change.
Quick one.
What did you ask Grok that nothing else could answer? Hit reply.
Talk soon,
Zephyr
