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Grok 2 comes out in August 2024

“Sadly quite true. It takes a lot of work to purge LLMs from the Internet training data. Grok 2, which comes out in August, will be a giant improvement in this regard.”
— Elon Musk · Jul 1, 2024 · Elon Musk on X, July 1 2024, replying to @BasedBeffJezos (verified verbatim via publish.x.com oEmbed) ↗
What actually happened

Delivered on time: xAI released Grok 2 and Grok 2 mini in beta to X Premium subscribers on August 13-14, 2024, inside the promised August window — one of the rare Musk ship dates hit as stated. TechCrunch — xAI releases Grok-2 in beta ↗

The Progression

Jul 1, 2024
The promise: “Sadly quite true. It takes a lot of work to purge LLMs from the Internet training data. Grok 2, which comes out in August, will be a giant improvement in this regard.” · Elon Musk on X, July 1 2024, replying to @BasedBeffJezos (verified verbatim via publish.x.com oEmbed) ↗
Aug 14, 2024
Delivered — on time. Delivered on time: xAI released Grok 2 and Grok 2 mini in beta to X Premium subscribers on August 13-14, 2024, inside the promised August window — one of the rare Musk ship dates hit as stated. TechCrunch — xAI releases Grok-2 in beta ↗
Today · Jun 12, 2026
Status: Delivered · on time. It happened.

The 'Grok 2, which comes out in August' post of July 1, 2024 promised a giant improvement in training-data quality over Grok 1. xAI shipped Grok 2 beta on August 13-14, 2024 with image generation via Flux, making this one of the few cleanly delivered Musk release dates and a useful control case next to the Grok 3 end-of-2024 miss from the same thread.

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