xAI releases Grok-2 / Grok-2 mini in beta
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Grok-2 / Grok-2 mini released in beta — 56.0% on GPQA and 87.5% on MMLU (company-reported by xAI). Entered anonymously on LMSYS beforehand as sus-column-r
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Image generation started not with an in-house model but through integration with an external model (Black Forest Labs FLUX.1)
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Officialx.aihttps://x.ai/news/grok-2Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
On the map — ⑥ Reasoning Models line
- Previous stopClaude 3.5 Sonnet
- This recordGrok-2 / Grok-2 mini
- Next stopo1-preview
In the model family tree — Grok family · 11 versions
- Earlier versionGrok-1.5V
- This recordGrok-2 / Grok-2 mini
- Later versionGrok 3 / Grok 3 mini