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SpaceXAI

Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 is an AI model released by SpaceXAI on Wednesday, Jul 8 2026, 82 days after Grok 4.3 Beta. Benchmark results (shown below) cover BullshitBench v2, SWE-Bench Pro, SWE-Bench Multilingual, DeepSWE 1.0, Next.js Evals, Terminal-Bench 2.1, and 3 more.

Benchmarks

Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
54%+4%
Agentic coding
SWE-Bench Pro
64.7%
Multilingual coding
SWE-Bench Multilingual
78%
Agentic coding
DeepSWE 1.0
62%
Next.js coding
Next.js Evals
83%
Agentic terminal coding
Terminal-Bench 2.1
83.3%
Agentic legal work
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark
12.92%
Medical admin work
MedScribe
86.88%
Community preference (code)
Arena Elo (Code)
1566

About Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5, released July 8, 2026, is xAI's current flagship and its strongest coding model to date: a WebDev Arena Elo of 1566, 64.7% on SWE-Bench Pro, 78.0% on SWE-Bench Multilingual, and 83.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 — second only to Claude Fable 5 on the terminal-agent benchmark at release.

It also posted 86.88% on MedScribe for clinical documentation and 62.0% on DeepSWE 1.0. Arriving almost exactly a year after Grok 4, it squares off against Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and Gemini 3.5 in the mid-2026 frontier cohort.

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