This Monday morning, new AI models are dropping fast, with multiple sources confirming fierce competition and rapid advancements across the industry.

Elon Musk, cited by both LatestLY and BASENOR - Tesla Accessories, claims xAI's new Grok 4.5 now outperforms Anthropic's Fable 5 and Claude Opus on some software benchmarks. Grok 4.5 scored 29% on the SWE Marathon benchmark, surpassing Opus 4.8's 26%. xAI also states Grok 4.5 runs at 80 transactions per second with twice the token efficiency of co