Elon Musk Drops a Bombshell: Grok 5 Could Be the AGI Breakthrough
Elon Musk signaled on September 14 that Grok 5, xAI's next major model, is the version he expects to reach artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The billionaire made the claim across two related posts on X, sparking immediate debate among researchers and traders alike.
What Musk Actually Said About Grok 5
Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, describes AI systems capable of matching or exceeding human performance across a wide range of intellectual tasks, rather than excelling at narrow, specific functions. That distinction sits at the center of Musk's latest comments.
Earlier that day, Musk announced that Grok 4.8, a 2.5-trillion-parameter model built on xAI's new C++ software stack, would finish training within the week and move into reinforcement learning. When a user asked how close Grok 4.8 would come to AGI, Musk replied simply: "That will be Grok 5."
He followed up minutes later with a clearer roadmap. Grok 4.7, he said, performs roughly on par with Anthropic's Opus 5.0, stronger in some areas and weaker in others, with multimodal capabilities still needing work.
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