Tag: grok

  • Grok 4.7 Was Supposed to Ship Days Ago. It Did Not

    Elon Musk said Grok 4.7 would land by September 12. That date came and went. Nothing shipped. On September 11, Musk posted on X that the model needs a few more days to cook. His words were that the team may have penalized response length too aggressively during training, so the model gives up on…

  • Grok’s New Image Model Just Leapfrogged the Field

    Grok’s New Image Model Just Leapfrogged the Field

    xAI shipped a new version of its image tool, Grok Imagine Image 2.0, putting it on grok.com, the iOS app, and the Android app all at once. It became the default Quality Mode on August 7, no beta wall, no waitlist. The headline feature is precision. There is a region tool, point at a spot…

  • xAI Just Shipped Grok 4.6, and 4.7 Is Weeks Away

    xAI Just Shipped Grok 4.6, and 4.7 Is Weeks Away

    xAI shipped Grok 4.6 today, and if you are keeping track, that is the second major Grok release in about six weeks. Grok 4.5 had barely finished rolling out before Elon Musk was already promising the next one, and here it is, right on schedule. Grok 4.6 runs on the same 1.5 trillion parameter foundation…

  • Grok Just Quietly Moved Into Google’s Office Suite

    Grok Just Quietly Moved Into Google’s Office Suite

    Grok just showed up inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. One install from the Workspace Marketplace and it’s sitting right there in tools millions of people already open every single day, no separate app, no new login to remember. In Sheets, it acts like an analyst who actually cites its own work. Ask it a…

  • Grok Just Revealed Its Next Move

    Grok Just Revealed Its Next Move

    Elon Musk confirmed Grok 4.6 on July 18. It is a two-trillion-parameter frontier model, coming after Grok 4.5, which launched just two days earlier. Let me put that timeline in perspective. GPT-5.6 took months of government review before launch. Anthropic dropped Fable 5 with months between announcement and release. Grok 4.5 launched on July 16,…

  • Grok 4.5 is here and it’s aiming straight at Claude

    Grok 4.5 is here and it’s aiming straight at Claude

    SpaceXAI just launched Grok 4.5 to the public on July 9, and the first thing you notice is not the benchmarks. It is that SpaceXAI is playing a completely different game than it was three months ago. Grok 4.5 is an Opus-class model trained on a 1.5 trillion parameter foundation built with Cursor coding data.…

  • Grok 4.5 Is Here, and It’s Trading Blows with Claude Opus

    Grok 4.5 Is Here, and It’s Trading Blows with Claude Opus

    Elon Musk just announced Grok 4.5 is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla. New foundation model underneath it, 1.5 trillion parameters, fed with Cursor training data. The early reports say it is performing at or above Claude Opus level on hard reasoning tasks. This is not a small update. This is a new architecture,…

  • Grok Just Got a Million-Token Brain

    Grok Just Got a Million-Token Brain

    Grok 4.3 is now on AWS Bedrock with a one-million-token context window and configurable reasoning levels. That is not a model update. That is a capacity upgrade that changes what long-context reasoning actually means in production. One million tokens is roughly 750,000 words. You can fit an entire codebase, a full legal document set, a…

  • Grok Just Walked Into Microsoft Word

    Grok Just Walked Into Microsoft Word

    xAI released Grok as a free add-in for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Elon Musk announced it. It is live now for anyone with a Microsoft 365 subscription. The relevance here is not the technology. It is the location. The tool that runs your workflow matters more than the search engine. Microsoft spent decades building…

  • Grok’s New Video Generation Joins the Race

    Grok’s New Video Generation Joins the Race

    xAI released Grok Imagine Video 1.5, a video generation model for image-to-video conversion. One image becomes a video. Generally available on grok.com, iOS, Android, and via the Imagine API. The model generates video faster and with better quality than before. Projects let you organize multiple generations. Built-in X search means you can find ideas without…