Elon Musk’s xAI Delays Grok 5 Release to Next Year
XAI plans to release its next-generation Grok 5 artificial intelligence model in the first three months of next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday. That’s later than a deadline Musk had previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025.
In an interview with the investor Ron Baron, who has backed several Musk companies including xAI, Musk said that Grok 5 would be released “in Q1 sometime.” Musk had previously said on X this August that Grok 5 would be out before the end of 2025. During Friday’s conversation with Baron, Musk also said that Grok 5 will have 6 trillion parameters, a key measure of the size of large language models, an increase from 3 trillion parameters for its predecessors Grok 3 and Grok 4.
Additionally, Musk said Friday that Tesla is still interested in building its own chip fabrication plant, an idea he also raised at the company’s shareholder meeting last week. Musk said that Tesla’s existing chip suppliers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung would have to build “100, 200 billion AI chips a year in the timeframe that we need them” in order for Tesla to not need its own fab. Musk said he needs the chips for Tesla’s vehicles and the Optimus robot.