Grok 4.7 · Community source · Editorial analysis
This is a roughly 55-second, silent, left-right split-screen video: the left side is labeled Grok 4.6, the right side is labeled Grok 4.7, and both show Age of Empires II-style towns and combat. The post gives no prompt, client, reasoning tier, or win/loss rules, so it can only be treated as a side-by-side impression.
This is a roughly 55-second, silent, left-right split-screen video: the left side is labeled Grok 4.6, the right side is labeled Grok 4.7, and both show Age of Empires II-style towns and combat. The post gives no prompt, client, reasoning tier, or win/loss rules, so it can only be treated as a side-by-side impression.
Tasks suitable for a judgment: In this video, which age the footage under each label is sitting in, and roughly what the population and top-bar resource numbers are at the sampled moments.
Tasks unsuitable for extrapolation: Who finished building, whether the two sides are the same map or the same prompt, play quality, official API cost, and other games or clients.
Applicable model versions: The title and the on-screen labels say Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7. The promotional sentence in the body mentions Cursor, Grok Build, and the API, and does not say which of those this video used.
Test environment or client: Not stated. The video is hosted on v.redd.it, 1280 wide and 480 high; the player shows 0:55, and there is no audio track.
Reasoning tiers and parameters: Not stated.
The author did not write steps, an input, or a score. The body in the post JSON is only one promotional sentence, plus one X link. The comparison comes from the text labels on the split-screen video. During collection, playback was paused at about 0:00, 0:08, 0:16, 0:24, 0:32, 0:40, 0:48, and 0:54, and the frame and the top bar were read; the small text under the population was zoomed in and checked only at 0:00, 0:40, and 0:54. There is no subtitle track. The comment count is 0. The input, the configuration, and the output do not appear together, so this note does not call it a benchmark.
The left label is Grok 4.6. In the opening frame, large yellow text in the center reads TIDEHOLD, and the line below reads The Brinewatch Landing. The camera moves over an already-built coastal town, with docks, towers, and soldiers visible. Top-bar population is 46/155 from 0:00 through 0:32, 45/155 at 0:40, and 46/155 again at 0:48 and 0:54. Zoomed in, the line under the population at those three checked points reads Age II Idle 34, Age II Idle 33, and Age II Idle 22, respectively. The two resource numbers on the left are 85 and 85 from 0:00 through 0:32, and 90 and 40 after 0:40.
The right label is Grok 4.7. The age button reads Age 1 at both 0:00 and 0:54, and the frames sampled in between also read Age 1. Four numbers on the top bar, from left to right: from 0:00 through 0:24 they are about 45, 35, 25, and 40; at 0:32 and 0:40 they are 65, 35, 25, and 50; at 0:48 and 0:54 they are 115, 35, 55, and 50. The opening is a dense stone town; from 0:16 to 0:24 it cuts to a construction site with scaffolding; after 0:48 it becomes a large melee. In these sampled frames, the right side does not show a place-name banner like the one on the left.
The bottom command bars on the two sides differ. At 0:00, part of the left command bar is covered by the player progress bar, but the Warship and Halt buttons are still visible. The video has no shared scoreboard, and no countdown or win/loss caption.
The original body text: “Grok 4.7 is here — try it in Cursor, Grok Build, API, or wherever you get tokens.” After that there is only the link https://x.com/ericzakariasson/status/2102070385130999968. That X page was not opened during collection.
Post JSON: the id is t3_1wmljaf, the author is OptimusBot, the created-timestamp is 2026-09-21T18:44:32.076000+0000, the score is 1, the upvote ratio is 1, num_comments is 0, post_type is video, and the domain is v.redd.it. The media duration is 55 seconds, has_audio is false, and the dimensions are 1280 wide by 480 high. There is no crosspost parent and no flair. The author link on the page says this is an automated account. The comment section shows there are no replies yet.
The Chinese interface displays the title as “Grok 4.6 vs 4.7 建筑帝国时代 II” and also shows a translation of the promotional sentence. The English above follows the post JSON. When the video reaches the end, the player overlays a layer labeled “推荐的视频” (Recommended videos). That is a Reddit recommendation, not the body of this post.
This silent video places two Age of Empires II-style clips side by side and labels them Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7. Across the roughly 55 seconds sampled, the left side spends most of the time on an already-built town at Age II with a population of about 46/155; the age button on the right stays on Age 1, a large battle appears in the later portion, and the top-bar numbers change.
“building” in the title is the post’s own wording. The video does not give a prompt, map, seed, client, or win/loss conditions, so it is not possible to tell whether the two sides are doing the same task. The content of the X link was not collected. A score of 1 and 0 comments also cannot be taken as someone else having checked this footage. The account is labeled an automated account, and aside from that link the post does not say where the footage came from.
Open the permalink above to see the title, the roughly 55-second silent video, that promotional sentence, and the 0 comments at collection time. To check the top bar, drag the playhead to the timestamps listed above. With no prompt, client, or parameters, this comparison cannot be rerun as an experiment.
The figures, task set, reasoning tier, and client conditions apply only to the listed source and collection snapshot. Different versions, harnesses, or providers must not be compared directly; undisclosed parameters remain unknown.
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Reddit (r/xai) · OptimusBot (the page labels this account as an automated account) · Original publication date 2026-09-21 · Site edit date 2026-09-22
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