
Grok 4.5
Grok 4.5 is xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter V9 model in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, with supplemental training on Cursor coding data and early evals claiming performance near Claude Opus 4.8.
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Grok 4.5 is xAI's 1.5-trillion-parameter V9 model in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, with supplemental training on Cursor coding data and early evals claiming performance near Claude Opus 4.8.

Elon Musk announced Grok 4.5 is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, claiming it rivals Claude Opus - but the only benchmarks cited are internal ones run at Musk's own companies.

Grok 4.3 slashes prices by up to 83%, adds native video input and voice cloning, and carves out a credible position as the most cost-efficient frontier model - with real caveats on coding and latency.

xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is the #1-ranked image-to-video model on Artificial Analysis, generating 720p clips with native audio at $0.14/s - 86% cheaper than Sora 2 Pro.

xAI ships an open plugin marketplace for Grok Build with six launch partners including MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry, backed by SHA-pinned supply chain security and an open GitHub catalog.

A former xAI engineer filed a California whistleblower lawsuit claiming he was fired for warning that Grok could spread dangerous content - the day before SpaceX prices its historic $75B IPO.

Grok Build 0.1 is xAI's first model built specifically for agentic coding workflows, with a 256K context window, native MCP support, and always-on reasoning at $1/M input tokens.

Seven Perplexity alternatives compared on citation quality, pricing, and research depth - from ChatGPT Search and Kagi to Grok DeepSearch and developer-focused Exa.

xAI opened Grok 4.3 to all API developers on May 6 with an 83% output price cut, 1M-token context, native video input, and document generation - plus five legacy models retiring May 15.

Under oath in the Musk v. Altman trial, Musk said xAI 'partly' distilled OpenAI's models to train Grok - the same practice US labs have spent months calling theft when Chinese firms do it.

XChat launched April 24 promising end-to-end encryption, but security researchers found private keys stored on X's own servers, no certificate pinning, and a four-digit PIN as the only defense.

Grok 4.3 Beta adds native video input and document generation to xAI's flagship, with a confirmed 0.5T-parameter checkpoint and 2M-token context window, at $300/month for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers.