Grok 2 beta launching soon says xAI

Artificial Intelligence company, xAI said that the company will release Grok 2 beta soon. The announcement comes as it prepares to release major features.

Launched in November, Grok is a large language model (LLM) chatbot integrated into X (formerly Twitter) social media site. X users can access Grok with a premium subscription.

In the past six months, the company released the 1.5 Grok upgrade and it has improved its reasoning capability. The version improves the context length to 128,000 tokens to process longer documents and information.

Grok has also received a Vision upgrade to process and describe images and screenshots. However, this feature is still pending.

With that being said, the previous report suggests that xAI will bring these vision capabilities to Grok 2 users. Also, it has nearly completed the training for the 2nd version to improve its performance compared to Grok 1.5.

Supercomputer

Since January, xAI has been working on a supercomputer cluster for the next generation of large language models. A report in June revealed that the new cluster will use 100,000 Nvidia H100 chipsets. The architecture will be using liquid-cooling technology.

xAI team and supercomputer infrastructure (Source – xAI)

Later that month, images of the new server racks surfaced via Dell Founder and CEO Michael Dell, who shared information that the new racks are built alongside Nvidia AI infrastructure and services.

In July, xAI completed supercomputer development and training the next-gen Grok model. This is the largest supercomputer used by an AI company and Grok 2 will be the first LLM to train with its power.

The latest advancements are also a result of xAI’s recent $6 billion funding, which enabled the company to boost architecture improvement. The AI firm will continue to make the new architectural changes through 2026 with the release of Grok 3 with B200 chips installation.

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