# Grok‑1

Grok‑1 is an AI model released by SpaceXAI on Nov 3 2023. It has open weight.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Model | Grok‑1 |
| Developer | SpaceXAI |
| Release date | Friday, Nov 3 2023 |
| Licensing | Open Weight |

## Questions and answers

### When was Grok‑1 released?

Grok‑1 was released by SpaceXAI on Friday, Nov 3 2023.

### Who made Grok‑1?

Grok‑1 was built by SpaceXAI. Elon Musk's AI company building the Grok series of models. Founded in 2023 as xAI, now part of SpaceX. Cursor (Anysphere) and its Composer coding models were acquired in 2026 and are tracked here.

### Is Grok‑1 open source?

Partly. Grok‑1 is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.

### What came before and after Grok‑1?

It was followed by Grok‑1.5 on Mar 29 2024.


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Canonical page: https://aireleasetracker.com/model/xai/grok‑1
Full dataset: https://aireleasetracker.com/llms-full.txt · JSON: https://aireleasetracker.com/models.json
Source: AI Release Tracker (https://aireleasetracker.com). Most benchmark scores come from lab launch material; gathered results identify the leaderboard that published them.