"Grok 4.5 has an advantage on CursorBench: an earlier snapshot of the Cursor codebase was unintentionally included in training"
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CursorBench reveals that Grok 4.5's high scores were partly due to unintentional inclusion of an earlier snapshot of the Cursor codebase in its training data. The data has been removed for future models.
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