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Saturday, July 18, 2026 · what moved in the AI release cycle in those 24 hours.
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A relatively quiet day led by distribution news: AWS published guidance for accessing xAI's Grok 4.3 through Amazon Bedrock's Mantle endpoint, complete with an OpenAI-compatible API path, configurable reasoning, and tool calling. Coming days after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family landed on Bedrock, it underscores AWS's push to aggregate frontier models. Elsewhere, benchmark updates trickled in for Kimi K3 and Amazon's Nova line.
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Top stories
Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock
Grok 4.3 on Bedrock with an OpenAI-compatible API broadens enterprise access to xAI's frontier model and extends AWS's multi-provider strategy.
Grok 4.3 · Amazon
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New benchmark readings
News & rumors added
AWS published implementation guidance for accessing xAI's Grok 4. 3 through Amazon Bedrock's Mantle endpoint, including its OpenAI-compatible API path, configurable reasoning, t…
Amazon · Jul 16, 2026
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