# xAI — Grok-2 Beta Release

- Company: xAI (x.ai)
- Announced: 2024-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Grok
- Models affected: Grok-2, Grok-2 mini
- Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4353-grok-2-beta-release

xAI announces the beta release of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini on the X platform, with an enterprise API coming later in the month. The model demonstrates competitive performance, outperforming Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4-Turbo on the LMSYS leaderboard.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://x.ai/news/grok-2:

> We are excited to release an early preview of Grok-2, a significant step forward from our previous model Grok-1.5, featuring frontier capabilities in chat, coding, and reasoning. At the same time, we are introducing Grok-2 mini, a small but capable sibling of Grok-2.

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