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Grok 4.5 First Look: 8 Game Builds, Benchmarks vs Opus 4.8 & Best Workflow Uses

The 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. The presenter demos multiple genres (open-world RPGs, racing, voxel/Minecraft-like) and comments on graphics, physics, controls, occasional bugs, and smoothness, plus the benefit of access via an existing X/Twitter subscription. They compare Grok 4.5 against models like Fable 5 and Opus 4.8, finding Fable 5 often higher quality while Grok 4.5 sometimes matches or beats Opus 4.8, including cases where Opus fails to generate. The script also shows Grok 4.5 integrated into Hermes/Agent OS, CLI, and studio workflows for images, video, and news-driven automations, and mentions token efficiency, real-time Twitter news access, and community resources.

00:00 Grok 4.5 Launch
00:08 Eight Game Builds
00:32 RPG and Racing Demos
01:38 Voxelcraft and Fail
02:29 Seven of Eight Verdict
02:48 Model Comparisons
06:12 Benchmark Results
07:06 Hermes Integration
08:17 Studio Image Video
09:47 Custom Workflow Power
10:06 Hermes Oracle News
12:37 Speed Tokens Pricing
14:59 Memory Galaxy Loop
15:31 Community and Wrap

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