Episode Details

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. 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 Launch00:08 Eight Game Builds00:32 RPG and Racing Demos01:38 Voxelcraft and Fail02:29 Seven of Eight Verdict02:48 Model Comparisons06:12 Benchmark Results07:06 Hermes Integration08:17 Studio Image Video09:47 Custom Workflow Power10:06 Hermes Oracle News12:37 Speed Tokens Pricing14:59 Memory Galaxy Loop15:31 Community and Wrap