xAI's next-gen AI model didn't arrive on time, adding to a trend
xAI aimed to release its next major model, Grok 3, in 2024 — but missed that deadline. It adds to a trend among AI companies.
The list of flagship AI models that missed their promised launch windows continues to grow.
Last summer, billionaire Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of AI company xAI, said that Grok 3, xAI’s next major AI model, would arrive by “end of year” 2024. Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on X, Musk’s social network.
“Grok 3 end of year after training on 100k H100s should be really something special,” Musk wrote in a July post on X, referring to xAI’s enormous Memphis-based cluster of GPUs. “Grok 3 will be a major leap forward,” he said in a mid-December follow-up post.
Yet it’s January 2, and Grok 3 hasn’t arrived — nor are there signs its rollout is imminent.
In fact, some code on xAI’s website spotted by AI tipster Tibor Blaho suggests that an intermediate model, “Grok 2.5,” may land first.
Grok[.]com is possibly coming soon with Grok 2.5 model (grok-2-latest – “Our most intelligent model”) – thanks for the hint, anon! pic.twitter.com/emsvmZyaf7
— Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) December 20, 2024