{"slug": "writer-launches-major-agentic-ai-improvements-with-palmyra-x6-flagship-model", "title": "Writer launches major agentic AI improvements with Palmyra X6 flagship model", "summary": "Writer Inc. released its next-generation flagship model, Palmyra X6, reporting a 52% lower average cost, 48% faster speed, and 10% quality improvement for its Agent platform, with X6 scoring 0.87 on nine evaluations at $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens. The model, post-trained on Z.ai Co. Ltd.'s GLM 5.2, completes tasks in 26 seconds on average, produces 82 tokens per second, and can work unattended for up to eight hours. Writer also upgraded its agent platform with reporting and governance features, including Playbooks and Skills, to help enterprises manage adoption, performance, and spend.", "body_md": "### Writer launches major agentic AI improvements with Palmyra X6 flagship model\n\nGenerative artificial intelligence startup [Writer Inc.](https://writer.com/) today announced the release of its next-generation flagship model, Palmyra X6, designed to deliver frontier-level performance for marketing and revenue teams while keeping costs in check.\n\nThe company said it also brought major upgrades to its AI agent platform that enable complex, multistep workflows for cost efficiency and long-task capabilities for customers at large scale. Together, these upgrades allow users to scale agents and worry less about the economics at play.\n\nTo cite some statistics provided by Writer, the company said its Agent platform now operates at an average of 52% lower cost, with a 48% improvement in speed and a 10% improvement in quality when paired with Palmyra X6.\n\n“The enterprise wants token consumption to explode — it means adoption is happening — but they need costs to flatten,” said co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Waseem AlShikh.\n\nX6 is an upgrade over Writer’s previous flagship model X5, [released in April 2025](https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/28/writer-announces-palmyra-x5-llm-1m-token-context-window-power-ai-agents/). The company said it developed the new model to address the specific demands of enterprise work by curating capabilities that work with content generation, sub-agent delegation and brand voice. The model was post-trained on top of GLM 5.2, a leading open-source flagship mixture-of-experts large language model developed by Z.ai Co. Ltd.\n\nOn evaluation, X6 scored an average of 0.87 across nine evaluations at $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens, ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 (0.86 at $3/$15), GPT-5.5 (0.80 at $5/$15) and Gemini 3.1 (0.77 at $2.50/$10). The company added that the model is the least politically biased model Writer evaluated, which is important for marketing and revenue teams to reach audiences and produce neutral content that can be customized easily to brand guidelines.\n\nThe model completes tasks in 26 seconds on average, produces 82 tokens per second and can work unattended toward a long-term goal for up to eight hours. This means it can sustain coherent reasoning across long, multistage objectives without drifting off task for long periods without human intervention.\n\nThe company said it launched a major upgrade to reporting and governance on the backend of its agentic controls, providing administrators a clear view of activity across teams. Employees can now build and share Playbooks and Skills.\n\nThese are repeatable agent workflows and instructions that allow a dashboard to surface the most common use cases. This provides a centralized view in Writer Agent of how it’s being used across the business, easily filtering and comparing over periods so admins can understand adoption, performance and spend.\n\nA dedicated analytics and governance section exists for Playbooks and Skills, allowing admins to see usage data, manage status and ownership. They can also monitor performance and costs for individual tasks or skill levels. 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