Grok-2 Arrives: Image Generation, Recognition, and Performance on Par with GPT-4o

Grok-2 launches with cutting-edge reasoning and image generation, outperforming top models like GPT-4o. Available now on X for Premium users.

Grok has caught up as GPT-5 remains unreleased.

On the same day Google and OpenAI competed for headlines, Musk's xAI also made waves.

xAI officially launched the new Grok 2 models.

The third-party model benchmark organization Chatbot Arena quickly updated the LMSYS leaderboard.

Grok 2’s early model (sus-column-r) ranks fourth, just behind GPT-4o (0513 version), outperforming Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4-Turbo.