o4-mini beats grok 4 on SciCode, despite being way faster and cheaper. It feels like maybe grok 4 was fine tuned specifically for some specific popular high status tasks? (Still fairly impressive, but more of a party trick than real capability AFAICT.)
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Grok 4 Voice Fails All Karaoke Benchmark Tests
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— swyx 🐣 (@swyx) 11 juillet 2025Grok 4 voice scores 0/7 on karaokebench
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Grok 4 is now on Poe! It sets new performance records across nearly all benchmarks and has taken the lead among the frontier models. (1/2)
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