Elon Musk Reveals Grok 4.6 Launch Timeline, Teases 2.1T-Parameter Grok 4.7
Highlights
- Elon Musk said that Grok 4.6 will launch around August 7.
- He also mentioned that they will release Grok 4.7 a few weeks later.
- This follows the release of Grok 4.5 this month.
Elon Musk has revealed that SpaceXAI plans to release the Grok 4.6 AI model next month, while the Grok 4.7 model could launch soon after. This comes as the AI race heats up with Anthropic and OpenAI pushing their frontier models.
Elon Musk Reveals When Grok 4.6 Will Launch
In an X post, the world’s richest man said that they will release Grok 4.6 around August 7 and that it will be the 1.5T model with significantly improved Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL). He also revealed that they will release Grok 4.7 a few weeks later and that it will be a 2.1T model.
“This will be better than 4.6 in every way, except slightly slower to serve, albeit with even better token efficiency,” Elon Musk said about the Grok 4.7 model. The planned launch of the Grok 4.6 follows the release of the Grok 4.5 earlier this month.
The planned launch of the new Grok models comes as the AI race heats up, with U.S. firms like SpaceXAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic facing competition from Chinese firms such as Moonshot. Moonshot released its open-weight Kimi K3 model yesterday.
The hype around Chinese AI models has led to reports that the Trump administration is weighing restrictions on this model in a bid to protect the U.S. AI leadership. However, as CoinGape reported, top tech firms such as NVIDIA have warned the U.S. against Open-Weight AI restrictions. The open letter from these firms also gained support from Elon Musk as well as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Grok 4.5 Emerges as Best Cybersecurity AI Model
Elon Musk’s revelation came in response to Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch’s assessment of the Grok 4.5 model. Rauch stated that in their latest assessment, the AI model emerged as the best cybersecurity model on price-performance.
In our latest https://t.co/p9AoezbuGt benchmarks, Grok 4.5 has emerged as the best cybersecurity AI model on price-performance.
It’s 10x cheaper than Sol, 5.7x cheaper than Opus 5, and 2.2x cheaper than Kimi K3, yet at Kimi-like perf.
Sol remains the frontier, ahead of Opus 5. https://t.co/kcSDIqnXsN
— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) July 27, 2026
He added that Grok 4.5 is 10x cheaper than ChatGPT’s Sol model, 5.7x cheaper than Opus 5, and 2.2x cheaper than Kimi K3, despite being at Kimi-like performance. “Sol remains the frontier, ahead of Opus 5,” Rauch said.
Meanwhile, even as the AI race heats up, it is worth noting that Anthropic and OpenAI have united to seek a federal review framework for advanced AI models before public release. These firms propose that regulators establish consistent AI safety standards that will apply to all U.S. firms.
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