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Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy

xAI · 9 July 2025

Grok 4 pairs native tool use with large-scale RL; Grok 4 Heavy runs parallel agents and is first to claim 50% on Humanity's Last Exam.

xAI scaled reinforcement learning on Colossus and added native search and code tools. Heavy reports 50.7% on HLE (with tools) and 61.9% on USAMO 2025; base Grok 4 scores 15.9% on ARC-AGI-2, nearly double Claude Opus 4's 8.6% per xAI.

Date
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Lab
xAI
Kind
model
Access
closed API

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
Humanity's Last Exam (Heavy, with tools)50.7%
xAI says first model to reach 50%
company
ARC-AGI-215.9%
vs Claude Opus 8.6% per xAI
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USAMO 2025 (Heavy)61.9%company
Vending-Bench net worth$4,694.15
vs Claude Opus $2,077.41
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All headline numbers are xAI-reported. Also in the app for SuperGrok subscribers, with a new SuperGrok Heavy tier for Grok 4 Heavy.

Sources

  1. x.ai/news/grok-4
  2. docs.x.ai/docs/release-notes

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