Writer releases Palmyra X5, delivers near GPT-4.1 performance at 75% lower cost

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Writer, the enterprise generative AI company valued at $1.9 billion, today released Palmyra X5, a new large language model (LLM) featuring an expansive 1-million-token context window that promises to accelerate the adoption of autonomous AI agents in corporate environments. The San Francisco-based company, which counts Accenture, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard among its hundreds of enterprise customers, has positioned the model as a cost-efficient alternative to offerings from industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, with pricing set at $0.60 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. “This model really unlocks the agentic world,” said Matan-Paul Shetrit, Director of Product at Writer, in an interview with VentureBeat. “It’s faster and cheaper than equivalent large context window models out there like GPT-4.1, and when you combine it with the ... Read full article.