Economic Times Tech
7/8/2026
The original headline is: "Elon Musk says Grok 4.5 to launch on July 9, calls it 'Opus-class'"
Original: Elon Musk says Grok 4.5 to launch on July 9, calls it 'Opus-class'
Short summary
Elon Musk announced Grok 4.5 will launch on July 9, claiming performance on par with or above Anthropic's Claude Opus. The model was first tested in private beta at Tesla and SpaceX in June. The launch intensifies the competitive race among frontier AI labs for faster, cheaper models.
- •Grok 4.5 launch set for July 9 per Elon Musk
- •Musk claims Opus-class or better performance vs Anthropic's Claude Opus
- •Model was privately beta-tested at Tesla and SpaceX in June
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