The list of flagship AI models that missed their promised launch windows continues to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last summer, billionaire Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of AI company xAI, said that Grok 3, xAI\u2019s next major AI model, would arrive by \u201cend of year\u201d 2024. Grok, xAI\u2019s answer to models like OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o and Google\u2019s Gemini, can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on X, Musk\u2019s social network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGrok 3 end of year after training on 100k H100s should be really something special,\u201d Musk wrote in a July post on X, referring to xAI\u2019s enormous Memphis-based cluster of GPUs. \u201cGrok 3 will be a major leap forward,\u201d he said in a mid-December follow-up post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet it\u2019s January 2, and Grok 3 hasn\u2019t arrived \u2014 nor are there signs its rollout is imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, some code on xAI\u2019s website spotted by AI tipster Tibor Blaho suggests that an intermediate model, \u201cGrok 2.5,\u201d may land first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And to be fair, in an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman in August, Musk said that Grok 3 would \u201chopefully\u201d be available in 2024 \u201cif we\u2019re lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Grok 3\u2019s MIA status is interesting because it\u2019s part of a growing trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, AI startup Anthropic failed to deliver a successor to its top-of-the-line Claude 3 Opus model. Months after announcing that a next-gen model, Claude 3.5 Opus, would by released by the end of 2024, Anthropic scrapped all mention of the model from its developer documentation. (According to one report, Anthropic did finish training Claude 3.5 Opus sometime last year, but decided that releasing it didn\u2019t make economic sense.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reportedly, Google and OpenAI have also suffered setbacks with their flagship models in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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