SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5. Here’s what’s new

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SpaceXAI launched the latest version of its flagship AI model with Grok 4.5, saying the latest iteration excels at coding, finance and completing tasks without human intervention.
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The latest Grok model was announced Wednesday afternoon.

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Key Facts
  • Grok 4.5, the company’s “strongest model ever,” according to a statement, was made available to the public Wednesday for a limited time.
  • Musk said Tuesday that Grok 4.5 is “an Opus-class model,” referring to Anthropic’s frontier AI model, but is “faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.”
  • Grok 4.5’s “capability, faster speed and lower cost is what makes it competitive,” Musk said in a follow-up post Wednesday.
  • The new SpaceXAI model is particularly skilled at handling agentic tasks, tasks that models can handle autonomously, and finance, legal and coding tasks.
  • Grok 4.5 can specifically build complex Excel models involving research from the web and build complex diagrams and intuitive slide content in PowerPoint, according to Wednesday’s statement.

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