Grok-1 (open)

xAI · 2024 · LLM · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: xAI
C · CEO & Politics: Elon Musk — Right / Republican; largest individual donor of 2024 cycle; revived America PAC with $100M+ for GOP in 2026 midterms (America Party plan shelved)
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Part of SpaceX (Elon Musk, CEO); Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX President)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: xAI's Grok-1 open-weights release: a 314B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 8 experts (2 active per token), 64 layers, an 8,192-token context and a 131,072-token SentencePiece vocabulary, published with JAX example code under Apache 2.0.
S · Stock / Status: Public via SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX, IPO Jun 12, 2026); $145 (SPCX, Sep 28, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @SpaceXSI
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from xAI, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗

“Grok-1 (open).” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/grok-1-open.html