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xAI deploys Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini on X

xAI released beta versions of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini to X Premium users with stronger reasoning, tool use, visual understanding, and image generation through a Black Forest Labs model.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM65confidence 98/100

Why it moved the index

The release placed stronger multimodal reasoning and image generation directly inside a mass social platform, increasing deployment reach and synthetic-media misuse exposure. The unspecified FLUX variant is not inferred.

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  1. R1
    Toward 65 · confidence 98

    New August 2024 exact frontier-model deployment with no durable model collision.

    12 Aug 2026
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