LLM Reference

Grok-1

Released
2023-11-03
Last refreshed
2026-05-20
Status
Researched 43d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

Grok-1 is released 2023-11-03 in the Grok 1 family with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Grok 1
Released
2023-11-03
Parameters
314B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

Ethical AI for universal truth-seeking

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Grok-1, created by xAI, is a formidable 314-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. It boasts a sophisticated architecture with 8 experts, leveraging 2 for each token input, spread across 64 layers and equipped with 48 attention heads per query. This vast model was trained from scratch using a specially crafted training stack based on JAX and Rust, finishing its pre-training phase by October 2023. Released as a base model under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, its open-source framework allows both commercial and non-commercial applications, though it lacks fine-tuning for specific tasks. Benchmarks highlight Grok-1's superior reasoning on various tasks but recognize its potential for generating inaccuracies ("hallucinations"). Running on a local setup requires substantial hardware, including a multi-GPU system, for efficient performance.

Grok-1 is an open-source model in the Grok 1 family. The structured metadata tracks reasoning. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Grok-1 yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

Reasoning

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Frequently asked questions

When was Grok-1 released?

Grok-1 was released on 2023-11-03.