xAI (Grok)
Building Grok — a maximally curious AI with real-time web access and deep reasoning.
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About xAI (Grok)
xAI was founded by Elon Musk in 2023 with the goal of building AI that seeks to understand the universe. Grok models are integrated into X (Twitter), giving them unique access to real-time social and news data. The Grok-3 family is competitive with GPT-4 class models on reasoning benchmarks, and its Thinking mode enables extended chain-of-thought inference.
Key highlights
Unique real-time access to X (Twitter) data and trending topics
Thinking mode available across the full Grok-3 family
Competitive benchmark scores on AIME 2025, GPQA, and LiveCodeBench
API access through the xAI developer platform
Natively integrated into X Premium subscriptions
Models
3 models tracked
Context windows, pricing, capabilities, and API identifiers — everything you need to choose the right model for your workload.
Grok-3
2025
xAI's flagship model. Offers Thinking mode for step-by-step reasoning and access to real-time information from X's data network. Strong on STEM and coding benchmarks.
- Real-time X platform data
- Thinking mode
- STEM & science
- Long context
grok-3Grok-3 Mini
2025
A lighter Grok-3 that retains Thinking mode at a fraction of the cost. Ideal for high-volume STEM tasks, math tutoring, and code review pipelines.
- Fast & cheap
- Thinking mode
- High-volume STEM
- Code review
grok-3-miniGrok-2 Vision
2024
Grok's multimodal vision model. Handles image understanding, chart and diagram analysis, and document processing tasks.
- Image understanding
- Chart & diagram analysis
- Document OCR
- Creative tasks
grok-2-vision-latestUse Cases
What xAI (Grok) is best for
Each provider has specialisms shaped by their architecture decisions, training data, and API design. Here is where xAI (Grok) performs best.
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