Elon Musk had talked about getting XAI Grok 4.20 out by the end of 2025. It has now been pushed back to mid-February. It will be two months late (or more).
It has more training so it will likely be a better model than what would have been released two months ago.
There is also XAI Grok 5, which was originally planned for March 2026. The XAI Grok 5 model will likely be delayed to April to June 2026.
There is talk that XAI will merge with SpaceX.
This likely happens as two private companies merging like Elon merged X (aka Twitter) with XAI.
We had some power uptime issues due to the extremely cold weather and some construction equipment taking out power lines.
As a result, Grok 4.20 training is a few weeks delayed to mid Feb.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 30, 2026
XAI Grok Imagine 1.0 is now generating more images & videos than everyone else combined!
With the release of version 1.0, Grok Imagine is now generating more images & videos than everyone else combined!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2026
Try the new @Grok Imagine image & video generation. Super easy to use.
Just go to https://t.co/Ui0vr66BL1 or download the app https://t.co/u2y4RZSsOD https://t.co/Za7Z9aUaUs
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 30, 2026
GROK 4.20 JUST SMOKED GPT‑5, CLAUDE, AND GEMINI
It beat GPT-5, Gemini 3, and Claude in forecasting real-world events.
Only actual humans who do this for a living are ahead of it.
And Elon says the best parts of Grok 4.20 aren’t even online yet.
This version isn’t even… https://t.co/mvgzI9LecJ pic.twitter.com/ntcmfTNxGO
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 30, 2026
Grok 5 is currently training at COLOSSUS 2 – the largest and most powerful AI Supercluster in the world. The most interesting and powerful AI outcome is most likely. pic.twitter.com/IJoZmyJXHl
— Testlabor (@testerlabor) January 29, 2026
Grok Imagine progress within 6 month:
Launch (July 2025)
Image Gen (August 2025)
Image Edit (October 2025)
Multi-Image (October 2025)
Video Gen (October 2025)
Grok web (October 2025)
Text-to-Video (November 2025)
10-Second Clips (January 2026)
API Release (January 2026) pic.twitter.com/dv4t8fHZAC— Testlabor (@testerlabor) January 29, 2026
Woah Grok Imagine cooked https://t.co/2VmVzgQMFe
— Beff (e/acc) (@beffjezos) January 30, 2026
Did you know that Grok Imagine has the most scale in AI image generation? It generated over 5.5 billion images within 30 days surpassing competitors like DALL·E, LeonardoAi, Midjourney or Google Veo. pic.twitter.com/PhOS7CBnKN
— Testlabor (@testerlabor) January 29, 2026
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