Grok 4.5 Takes #1 on Research and #2 on Coding in FrontierSWE Benchmark

xAI's latest model is posting real numbers on a respected software-engineering eval, evidence that its gap to the frontier leaders is narrowing in specialized domains.

xAI's Grok 4.5 is putting up results that are harder to dismiss. According to @SpaceXAI, the model placed #2 on Proximal's FrontierSWE benchmark "across implementation and performance, and #1 on research abilities." The reaction from @KingAnt was terse: "Grok 4.5 is doing numbers."

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