xAI's Grok hype cycle repeats: 4.7 delayed, no frontier model beats ChatGPT or Claude
flowersslop · x · 2026-09-22
The author calls out xAI's repeating playbook: hype Grok 4.x as a frontier jump over everything (allegedly boosted by SpaceX engineering data), delay it, admit it won't beat current models, then promise the next version will.
Grok 4.7 has shipped nothing better than ChatGPT or Claude, and there's near-zero buzz online — even Elon fanboys are quiet. The author concludes xAI has failed to keep pace and the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI looks more likely to widen than close.
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