Grok 1

xAI · 2023 · Multimodal LLM · USA

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A · App: Yes
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: 2023
E · Expertise: Beginner (app available)
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text+Image+Audio
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Part of SpaceX (Elon Musk, CEO); Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX President)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Multimodal LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: 5/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 4.5/10 → 4.52
R · What Makes It Special: xAI's Grok-1, the language model behind Grok, which xAI announced on November 3, 2023 as an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that answers with wit and a rebellious streak and draws on real-time knowledge from X; developed over four months, it scored 63.2% on HumanEval and 73% on MMLU. On March 17, 2024 xAI released the base model's weights and architecture, a 314B-parameter mixture of experts with 25% of weights active per token, 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: Yes
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @SpaceXSI
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Multimodal LLM from xAI, released 2023.

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