Musk Admits Grok 4.7 Trails Anthropic's Opus 5.5, Expects Frontier Catch-Up Next Year
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-27
Elon Musk made the rare admission that his own Grok 4.7 ranks second: it trails Anthropic's newest Opus 5.5, he says, because xAI has been building AI for only 3 years versus Anthropic's 6. He expects Grok to reach the frontier most likely next year.
Commenters noted how unusual it is for a founder to rank his own model second — and argued that if the catch-up lands, the best model for your agent changes again, so keep the model a config line, not a rewrite.
Related event: Musk Admits Grok Lags Behind Claude Opus 5.5(2 posts)→
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