Notable this week: Grok CLI open source, Qwen 2.4T sparse MoE, GLM-5.2 Turbo

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Five things worth a closer look from the week of August 18. Grok CLI went open source xAI released Grok CLI as a free, open-source CLI agent this week, powered by Grok 4.6. It enters a field with Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode all competing for the agentic coding slot. The notable difference in positioning: Grok CLI apparently pulls from xAI's free API tier, which changes the cost calculus compared to per-token billing. I haven't run it seriously yet