“Well, hopefully end of this year [2024]... Grok 3, if we're lucky. [And] Grok 3 will be, I don't know, an order of magnitude better than Grok 2 — hoping for it to be state-of-the-art. I mean, this is the goal. We may fail at this goal. That's the aspiration.”

Elon MuskCEO

CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and owner of X

Grok 3 did not ship in 2024; it launched on February 17, 2025, roughly two months past the stated 'end of this year' target. At release it did post leading benchmark and Chatbot Arena scores, but only briefly before rivals leapfrogged it.