Grok 2

xAI · 2024 · 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: 2024
E · Expertise: Beginner (app available)
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Images
H · Deployment: Cloud (grok.x.ai + X) + 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: Minimal content restrictions. NSFW image controversy.
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Grok 2 Community License Agreement)
Q · AIDb Rating: 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 4/10 · Significance 4.5/10 → 4.08
R · What Makes It Special: xAI's Grok-2 (August 13, 2024), released in beta on X with the smaller Grok-2 mini as a major step up from Grok-1.5 in chat, coding and reasoning; an early version tested on LMSYS Chatbot Arena as 'sus-column-r' outscored Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo, and it scored 87.5% on MMLU and 56.0% on GPQA, understanding text and images with real-time information from X, with API access planned that month. xAI later published its weights on Hugging Face.
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 2024.

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