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xAI

xAI

Elon Musk's AI company developing the Grok series of language models with unique reasoning abilities.

Total Models

11

Text Models

10

Image Models

1

Active Period

Feb 2025 – Mar 2026

Founded by Elon Musk with the goal of understanding the universe/AGI.

Grok chatbot with a 'rebellious' personality and X platform access.

Open-sourced an early version of the Grok-1 model.

Developing multimodal capabilities (Grok Vision).

Compare xAI Models

Grok 4.20 Beta

Mar 2026

Grok 4.20 Beta is xAI's newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities. It combines the lowest hallucination rate on the market with strict prompt adherence, delivering consistently precise and truthful responses. Reasoning can be enabled/disabled using the reasoning enabled parameter in the API.

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Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta

Mar 2026

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta is a variant of xAI's Grok 4.20 designed for collaborative, agent-based workflows. Multiple agents operate in parallel to conduct deep research, coordinate tool use, and synthesize information across complex tasks. Reasoning effort controls agent count: low/medium uses 4 agents, high/xhigh uses 16 agents.

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Grok Imagine Image

Dec 2025

xAI's state-of-the-art image generation model, combining Grok's strong prompt understanding with high-quality visual output. Produces detailed, creative images with excellent prompt adherence.

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Grok 4.1 Fast

Nov 2025

Grok 4.1 Fast model integrated via automation on 2025-11-21

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xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free)

Sep 2025

Grok 4 Fast is xAI's latest multimodal model with SOTA cost-efficiency and a 2M token context window. It comes in two flavors: non-reasoning and reasoning. Reasoning can be enabled via the API.

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Grok Code Fast 1

Aug 2025

Grok Code Fast 1 model integrated via automation on 2025-08-26

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xAI: Grok 4

Jul 2025

Grok 4 is xAI's latest reasoning model with a 256k context window. It supports parallel tool calling, structured outputs, and both image and text inputs. Note that reasoning is not exposed, reasoning cannot be disabled, and the reasoning effort cannot be specified.

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Grok 3 Mini Beta

Apr 2025

Grok 3 Mini is a lightweight, smaller thinking model ideal for reasoning-heavy tasks that don't demand extensive domain knowledge. It shines in math-specific and quantitative use cases. Transparent 'thinking' traces accessible.

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Grok 3 Beta

Apr 2025

Grok 3 Beta is xAI's flagship model excelling at enterprise use cases like data extraction, coding, and text summarization. Possesses deep domain knowledge in finance, healthcare, law, and science. Outperforms Grok 3 Mini on high thinking tasks.

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Grok 3 Thinking

Feb 2025

Grok 3 Thinking exposes the full chain-of-thought process during problem-solving, including error backtracking and alternative solution exploration. Scores 84.6% on GPQA Diamond benchmark for expert-level Q&A.

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Grok 3

Feb 2025

Grok 3 is a cutting-edge AI model from xAI with Big Brain Mode for complex problems, Colossus Supercomputer integration, and Reinforcement Learning optimization. Achieves 1402 Elo on LMArena benchmarks and 93.3% on AIME 2025 mathematics competition.

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