xAI releases Grok 4.1

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Released Grok 4.1 — the Thinking version ranked first on the LMArena text leaderboard at 1483 Elo. Applied large-scale RL using frontier reasoning models as reward evaluators

Why it matters

A release that made emotional and creative interaction an explicit optimization target

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Officialx.aihttps://x.ai/news/grok-4-1

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On the map — ⑥ Reasoning Models line

  1. Previous stopClaude Haiku 4.5
  2. This recordGrok 4.1
  3. Next stopClaude Opus 4.5
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In the model family tree — Grok family · 11 versions

  1. Earlier versionGrok 4 Fast
  2. This recordGrok 4.1
  3. Later versionGrok 4.5
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