Elon Musks xAI officially released its next-generation flagship large language model, Grok 4, on July 11, 2025. This launch, confirmed by industry publications like AI Business and announced on social media, is a major event in the artificial intelligence race and significantly intensifies competition for market leaders OpenAI and Google. The release of Grok 4 follows Musks promises to introduce a new, more powerful, and less "restricted" model shortly after U.S. Independence Day. The new version, like its predecessors, has real-time access to data from the social network X (formerly Twitter), giving it a unique advantage in understanding current events, memes, and public discourse. Grok 4 is positioned as a direct competitor to the latest models from OpenAIs GPT family and Googles Gemini family. The new model is expected to show significant improvements in logical reasoning, mathematical abilities, and code generation. However, the key differentiator emphasized by xAI remains the models response style – more audacious, sarcastic, and less subject to censorship compared to its competitors. For Elon Musk, the launch of Grok 4 is not only a technological but also an ideological confrontation. He aims to create an alternative to what he calls "woke AI," offering users a model that, in his view, more objectively reflects reality. This release will undoubtedly spur all market players to accelerate their development and may lead to further segmentation of the AI market, where users will choose models not only based on their technical capabilities but also on their "personality" and value alignments.
Elon Musks xAI Releases Grok 4, Intensifying Competition with OpenAI and Google
