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Elon Musk’s NEW Grok 4.5 is INSANE! 🤯

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

July 9, 2026

Grok 4.5 First Look: 8 Game Builds, Benchmarks vs Opus 4.8 & Best Workflow UsesThe script reviews the newly released Grok 4.5, noting it’s free to try and showing results from eight game builds tracked on Goldy Bench, with seven good outputs and one poor one.
Speakers: Julian Goldie
**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Grok 4.5 has dropped, you can try it for free, and it is pretty impressive. Let me show you what I've built with it so far. We've tested it on eight different builds. It's very impressive. You can see our results so far on Goldie Bench, if you wanna have a look. But for example, if we check out this game right here, you see right here, like the graphics are quite nice. It's fun to use. I mean, the camera angle could be a little bit better, but overall pretty cool. Let's have a look at the next one. So this is kind of like an open world RPG game, as you can see, camera angle is nice, graphics feel good, good physics in there. Let's have a look in the sky, try and find the dragon. There it is.
With the mountains over here, 3D, looking pretty cool. We have much better outputs than when I tested something like, for example, HY3 from Tencent. It's looking really good. Let's test the next one out. So this is a racing game. Now that is fun. That is pretty cool.
Definitely works.
Decent graphics.
Let's try it again. Little bit hard to control.
I guess that's the point of the game. Let's try it out here. Yeah, it's pretty good. Pretty good.
A little bit buggy in parts, but overall nice, fun to play, et cetera. Let's check the next one out. So this is like an open world RPG game and very easy to control. It's actually got enemies as well, which is good. Very big, expansive open world style. Yeah, it's looking great so far. Let's try the next one. So this kind of Voxelcraft game, kind of like Minecraft as you can see here. And it just built this out in like one or two clicks. I mean, literally most of these are just one prompts. It's very, very smooth. Test super nice.
If you actually compare this, and we will compare this versus, for example, Opus 4.8, it will be interesting to see where it goes. I think this is the only one that didn't look very good at all. So you can see this is whatever it's supposed to be is terrible. So I'd say that's probably one of the worst ones. And then we have this game, which is super fun to play.
Works really well.
Not too much detail. I have noticed that in some of the builds, it's like a little bit hard to control some of the games. For example, the controls are opposite sometimes.
But overall fun to play, works really nicely, easy to use. And bear in mind, like I'm already subscribed to Twitter, which means like if you're using something like this, you don't need to pay any extra. You get it included, which is pretty amazing in itself. So eight tests, seven good builds. This one was not very good, but the rest were actually pretty decent. How does it compare versus other models? Let's find out. So if we filter on Goldie Bench just to Grok 4.5, let's compare the builds. I mean, this isn't really a fair comparison, but if we wanted to compare, how does it do? So we've got Fable 5 versus Grok 4.5, just to show you the difference. So this is the racing game we talked about before. Then we have this from Fable 5 And you can see there is a clear difference in the quality, the graphics, the control, the details, even like the UI is much nicer with Fable 5 Now let's have a look versus Opus 4.8.
So actually on Opus 4.8, this generation didn't work at all. Let's have a look on Grok 4.5. So that actually works pretty nice, easy to use, fun game, et cetera.
Graphics are much nicer. Does feel a little bit like Lego, but apart from that it's good. Let's have a look at the next generation. So this is Opus 4.8.
Really weird, sometimes you create these games and like the controls are backwards, if that makes sense. So like what you think is walking forward is actually walking backwards.
Apart from that, not bad. Like I like the effects, everything else. Let's have a look at this one. I mean, this one is not far off. I wouldn't say there's a huge difference between them. If anything, this feels a bit smoother and less laggier. Let's compare the next one. I would definitely say Opus 4.8.
Well, actually, yeah, I would say Opus 4.8 One on this one. It just looks a lot nicer, better UI, et cetera. The only thing is, you'll see that it's a little bit laggy when we're playing this. If we compare that to Grok here, the gameplay itself is much smoother, but the details in the UI, not as nice. And it's a little bit buggy in places. Definitely lost on this game. Let's have a look at the racing game. Oh, what happened here? This is Opus 4.8.

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