On: Grok 4 Launch [video]

[Workaccount2 → mhoad]

Well we have GPT-5 and Gemini 3 in the wings so it wouldn't be surprising if it is SOTA for a few days.

[monkeydust → Workaccount2]

yup this will probably trigger the next wave of releases, someone had to go first.

[Voloskaya → monkeydust]

xAI, with OAI just a few weeks before, were the first to get a cluster up of a sufficient size to train a GPT-5 like model. xAI released this as fast as they could, it hasn't been sitting on shelf for month, and neither has GPT-5.