Elon Musk has announced the successful completion of training for the fundamental Grok V9-Medium model, boasting 1.5 trillion parameters. He indicates that initial evaluation results are quite promising.
A substantial volume of data from Cursor, a widely-used text editor featuring integrated AI, was incorporated into the model during supplemental training, and this integration is set to continue. The current phase involves fine-tuning, with reinforcement learning scheduled to commence in a few days. Public access to the model is anticipated within the next 2 to 3 weeks.
This forthcoming update represents a considerable advancement over the existing Grok V8-Small (0.5 trillion parameters), which currently handles all of Grok’s operational traffic. A notable surge in performance is expected, particularly in sophisticated programming and coding tasks.
The release of V9-Medium is poised to bolster Grok’s standing in the competitive landscape of leading AI models. The threefold increase in parameters, coupled with enhanced data quality, is expected to significantly elevate the model’s capabilities in reasoning, code generation, and tackling intricate challenges.
Previously, Elon Musk stated that Grok Build is improving daily, with the team working seven days a week. In the recent Grok Build version 0.1.219, engineers concentrated on resolving bugs related to terminal operations.
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