Musk calls Grok 4.7 a solid workhorse, expects xAI to catch up to frontier next year

XFreeze · x · 2026-09-26

Elon Musk gave a rare, candid assessment of xAI's position:

On Grok 4.7: he called it "a solid workhorse of a model" — useful and dependable, without claiming frontier-leading status.
On the gap: xAI has only been doing AI for about three years, versus Anthropic's six, and he acknowledged the accumulated head start.
On the timeline: he expects xAI "probably" catches up to the frontier sometime next year, while stressing Grok is already useful for many things in the meantime.

Notable as the first explicit timetable-style prediction from Musk on when xAI closes the frontier gap.

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