Grok-2
xAI · August 2024
● activeClosedmixture of expertsmultimodalAPI Available
Context Window128K tokens
VariantsGrok-2, Grok-2 Mini
Description
A major upgrade that brought Grok into the frontier tier, competing with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o on reasoning and coding benchmarks. Added image generation through Aurora (xAI's built-in image model) and image understanding capabilities. Available as a full-size model and a faster 'Mini' variant.
Notable Milestones
- ▸Competitive with Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o on benchmarks
- ▸Built-in image generation via Aurora
- ▸Integrated into X/Twitter platform for premium users
Key Innovations
Multimodal
MultimodalProcessing multiple types of input (text, images, audio, video) in a single model.