We benchmarked every open Amharic speech model on data none of them had seen.
The 606M model beat the 963M one.
The monolingual beat the multilingual.
CER and WER disagreed on the winner.
Then we built a 538MB language model that fixes 3 more words per 100.
Try it on your own voice 👇
Our internal assessment is that Grok 4.5 is roughly comparable to Opus 4.7, but much faster. The combination of capability, faster speed and lower cost is what makes it competitive.
We are closing the loop on real-world usefulness, not benchmarks. Hardcore engineers at Tesla & SpaceX find Grok 4.5 genuinely useful, which is what actually matters.
@zats done, this is going to be a timesaver. works for codex and opencode in Terminator on Linux, supports keyboard shortcuts for adding comments and inserting back to chat input. host an early version here: https://t.co/ZSSB19aqGD
@zats done, this is going to be a timesaver. works for codex and opencode in Terminator on Linux, supports keyboard shortcuts for adding comments and inserting back to chat input. host an early version here: https://t.co/ZSSB19aqGD
BUILD YOUR OWN SOFTWARE FACTORY
The best companies in the world are all building their own software factories, using a combination of first party and third party tools.
The software factory is a set of background coding agents running in the cloud. Anyone at the company, engineering or otherwise, can invoke it from their phone or laptop. Different agents spec out the feature, submit a PR, do the review, and merge it into the target branch. (With the right human approvals based on the repo)
As @ericwilliamrea, CEO of @PodiumHQ , says: “one of our customers was having a problem; I tagged our software factory in the feedback on Slack; it went and cut a PR and built it and 15 minutes later we had a fix”.
CEOs: THIS is the best way to get your entire team - your PMs, designers, sales, marketers, execs - involved in the product development process.
Put a small dedicated team on building and continually improving your own software factory. The improvement in your team’s product velocity will be palpable.