Musk confirms Grok went from outside top 10 to top 3 in 90 days, Grok 4.8 next
elonmusk · x · 2026-09-22
Elon Musk replied "True" to a timeline of xAI's recent model race:
- Grok 4.3: barely top 10, with skeptics declaring "xAI is dead beyond compute leases"
- Grok 4.5: a big comeback, but "Grok will never catch up to the frontier"
- Grok 4.6: reached the frontier, yet "still not top 3"
- Grok 4.7: now top 3 in frontier coding while being much cheaper and faster
- Grok 4.8: due next month
The author argues "the model machine is just starting up" and Grok will be the workhorse of the coming agentic era. Musk's one-word endorsement effectively confirms the narrative.
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