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The New Grok 4.5 Is Out. Elon Musk Says It Competes With Last Year's Claude Opus
SpaceXAI's new coding model Grok 4.5 is positioned as cheaper and faster than Anthropic and OpenAI's flagship models. Elon Musk claims it competes with last year's Claude Opus but acknowledges it is at least one generation behind those models.
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