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1: They are tall.
2: They are hunched over while aiming. Grunts don't often do that.
3: That gun does not look grunt-worthy. Grunts are given the worst of the worst, not all the new, cool stuff!
So, you ask what I think these models are? They are Brutes.
1: Brutes are that tall.
2: Brutes hunch over all the time.
3: Brutes have separated from the Covenant we know; we have never seen any of their technology, except for the Brute PR, Brute Shot, and an exterior shot of their capital ships. The backpack may be shields, it may be life-support, etc. Plus, the new guns look like it would belong to Brutes!
The arms are also the most telling, since they can clearly be seen from where the video shows them from. Grunts also have stubby, single arms that don't bend in the middle. Brutes have the buff-version of a humanoid build; two sections to the arm that bend in the middle. Check the models, and the video side-by-side.
A Standard Grunt
A Standard Brute
[Edited on 6/6/2006]