xAI Grok 2 and Grok 3: Launch Date and Features

Artificial Intelligence (AI) firm xAI has confirmed that the new Grok 2 and Grok 3 large language models (LLMs) will launch this and next year respectively.

Grok AI chatbot was released in November last year and is the first xAI product. Elon Musk founded the company in 2023 to compete against OpenAI and Google. This chatbot is integrated into social media site X and available for X Premium users.

Earlier today, Musk commented on LLM training via data available on the internet and said that Grok 2 will be a major step in this direction. He also revealed that Grok 2 will be released in August.

A few months ago, the company added v1.5 as the latest version with speed and performance improvements. However, it was delayed to June and rolled out within the last few weeks. Last month, Toby Pohlen, an xAI team member said Grok 2 is looking “very promising” to ramp up performance beyond v1.5.

The company secured $6 billion Series B funding in May and is under development for advancements. Soon after, xAI confirmed a hardware upgrade including new AI chipsets. xAI will soon enable Nvidia H100 liquid-cooled training clusters with 100,000 units. This is the current most demanding AI chipset in the generative AI industry.

Elaborating on this report, Michale Dell, Founder and CEO of Dell shared images of AI data center racks. These are said to be half of all AI clusters designed for new AI Supercomputer. The rest will be designed by another company.

Dell supercomputer racks for xAI (Image Source – Michael Dell/X)

Furthermore, Musk has revealed that Grok version 3 will meet a launch date next year. The model will be trained first on the new supercomputer.

Next year, the company planned to add 300,000 Nvidia B200 AI chipsets with CX8 networking. Despite these revelations, there are no details available about the feature improvements. However, we can expect the new LLM to equip generative AI, video, and sound capabilities.