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Revision as of 21:33, 3 September 2024
This is a timeline of FIXME, a company founded by Elon Musk with the mission to develop and advance artificial intelligence technologies with a focus on understanding and addressing complex challenges in the universe. The company aims to create advanced AI models and tools, such as the Grok series of conversational AI models, to push the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can achieve in various domains.
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Big picture
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Full timeline
| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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| 2023 | 12 July | Company announcement | "Hello World!" is announced, marking the formation of xAI with the mission to understand the universe.[1] |
| 2023 | 18 August | Grok-0 | The first flagship model, Grok-0, is completed. It is a 33B parameter dense transformer architecture.[1] |
| 2023 | 3 November | Grok-1 | The early-access release of the conversational AI Grok and the Grok-1 model is announced. Hundreds of early-access users begin using Grok.[1] |
| 2023 | 6 November | PromptIDE | The early-access release of PromptIDE, an integrated development environment for prompt engineering, is announced.[1] |
| 2023 | 15 November | Grok API | The first SDK is released and close partners begin using the Grok API.[1] |
| 2023 | 7 December | Grok on X | X users subscribed to X Premium+ are given access to use Grok on the X website and apps.[1] |
| 2024 | 17 March | Grok-1 open source release | The weights and architecture of the Grok-1 LLM are released as open source.[1] |
| 2024 | 28 March | Grok-1.5 | The improved flagship model, Grok-1.5, is completed. It demonstrates enhanced performance in reasoning and coding.[1] |
| 2024 | 12 April | Grok-1.5V | Vision capabilities are added to Grok-1.5, allowing it to reason about interleaved natural language and images.[1] |
| 2024 | 15 May | Grok-1.5 on X | Grok-1.5 becomes available on X, continuing the integration of advanced AI features for users.[1] |
| 2024 | September 3 | xAI unveils its new AI training system, Colossus, equipped with 100,000 Nvidia H100 graphics cards. Colossus is described by Musk as the world’s most powerful AI training system, potentially surpassing the U.S. Energy Department’s Aurora system. The system's H100 GPUs, known for their high performance, are capable of running language models up to 30 times faster than previous generations. xAI plans to expand Colossus to 200,000 chips, including newer H200 GPUs with improved speed and memory. This upgrade aims to enhance AI model development, with xAI targeting the release of its next large language model, Grok-3, by year-end.[2] |
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