Elon Musk said SpaceX AI will release the Grok 4.6 model next month, and teased a follow-up version, Grok 4.7, with 2.1 trillion parameters. The announcement came via a post on X, the platform Musk owns.
What Musk said
In a brief X post, Musk wrote that Grok 4.6 is coming next month. He also mentioned that Grok 4.7 is in the works, claiming it will have 2.1 trillion parameters. The post did not include a specific date for either release or details on what improvements the new models will bring.
The competitive landscape
The AI race is heating up. Anthropic and OpenAI are both pushing their frontier models. OpenAI recently released GPT-4o, while Anthropic has Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Musk's announcement positions Grok as a direct competitor in the large language model space.
What's known about Grok
Grok is developed by xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence company. The current version, Grok 2, was released earlier this year. The jump to 4.6 suggests a significant leap in capabilities, though Musk has not provided benchmarks or comparisons. The 2.1 trillion parameter count for Grok 4.7 would make it one of the largest models ever announced, if delivered.
Unanswered questions
It is unclear whether Grok 4.6 will be available to the public or remain behind X Premium subscriptions. Musk has previously said Grok would be open-source, but the timeline for that has shifted. The tease of Grok 4.7 before 4.6 is even out raises questions about the development cycle and whether the company is trying to keep pace with rivals.
