Oh no (the new Grok model is good)
Theo - t3․gg
Jul 9, 2026
XAI’s Grok 4.5 establishes a new performance floor for coding and agentic tasks by delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost. While it lacks the high-level orchestration capabilities of the absolute newest generation models, its massive leap in token efficiency and coding competence makes it a formidable, cost-effective rival to incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Key insight: Grok 4.5 achieves high-tier coding performance using only 2 million tokens per task, compared to the 7-9 million tokens required by leading competitors like Claude and Opus, making it significantly faster and cheaper for daily engineering work.
