I have found out recently that Grok-4.1-fast has similar pricing (in cents) but 10x larger context window (2M tokens instead of ~128-200k of gpt-4-1-nano). And ~4% hallucination, lowest in blind tests in LLM arena.
Grok is the best general purpose LLM in my experience. Only Gemini is comparable. It would be silly to ignore it, and xAI is less evil than Google these days.
In the big picture, those events are insignificant compared to the negative impacts on society from Google's trillion dollar advertising business and the associated destruction of privacy.
I have found out recently that Grok-4.1-fast has similar pricing (in cents) but 10x larger context window (2M tokens instead of ~128-200k of gpt-4-1-nano). And ~4% hallucination, lowest in blind tests in LLM arena.