Since 21 August xAI's model sits inside Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, available through Model Garden. A 500,000 token context, adjustable reasoning level, and customers who would otherwise never open an account with xAI.
- On 21 August xAI announced access to Grok 4.6 inside Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, through Model Garden.
- Described as xAI's newest flagship model, built for long running agents: 500,000 token context, adjustable reasoning level.
- Price: $2 per million input tokens, $0.50 per million cached input tokens, $6 per million output tokens.
The address on xAI's page says vertex-ai. The text on it says something else: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, access through Model Garden. A small difference. Exactly the kind everyone else copies afterwards.
I read it simply. Google has customers who would never open an account with xAI, because the company looks small to them, new, tied to one person. Now the model sits in Google's own menu, next to their own. The customer picks a line from the list and rarely asks who is behind it.
For you the meaning is practical. If your company already goes through Google for agents, Grok is one click closer than it was yesterday. Try it on a real task from your own work, not on a demo.