This week in Grok Build · May 3, 2026
xAI Python SDK v1.12.2: None and Medium Reasoning Effort Levels Added
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The xAI Python SDK v1.12.2 ships one focused addition: two new reasoning effort levels, none and medium, giving developers finer control over compute cost versus output quality when calling Grok models. If your application has latency-sensitive or cost-sensitive paths, update your SDK and test the new effort settings against your workloads today.
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xAI Python SDK v1.12.2 adds none and medium reasoning effort levels
- Released in v1.12.2, the xAI Python SDK now exposes none and medium as selectable reasoning effort levels alongside the existing options, letting callers trade off inference cost against response depth on a per-request basis.
- The change was contributed by shawnthapa and is live in the published package.
Action Items
Immediate
- Upgrade xai-sdk-python to v1.12.2 and review the reasoning effort parameter in your Grok API calls.
- Benchmark the none and medium effort levels against your existing calls to identify latency and cost savings on lower-complexity tasks.
- Update any hardcoded effort level values in your codebase to use the new none or medium options where appropriate.
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