Grok-1

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• Announced 3 November 2023 ● Primary source[1]page date
• Released November 2023The model card says the initial Grok-1 was released in Nov 2023. The announcement of 2023-11-03 offered early access to a limited number of users in the United States through a waitlist. ● Primary source[3]Model details
• Base model weights released under Apache 2.0 17 March 2024The released checkpoint is the raw base model from the pre-training phase that concluded in October 2023, not fine-tuned for dialogue. ● Primary source[2]page date [4]License

• Status AvailableRefers to the open base-model weights, which remain downloadable from xAI's Hugging Face and GitHub repositories. xAI published no end-of-service notice for the fine-tuned Grok-1 that powered Grok at launch. ● Primary source[5]Download instruction [4]Downloading the weights

• Input textThe announcement says Grok did not yet have other senses such as vision and audio. ● Primary source[1]Research at xAI: Multimodal capabilities
• Output text ● Primary source[3]Model details; Intended uses
• Open weights YesBase model weights and network architecture under the Apache 2.0 licence, released 2024-03-17. ● Primary source[2] [4]License [5]
• Context window 8,192 tokens tokens ● Primary source[3]Model details [4]Model Specifications
• Parameters 314BMixture-of-Experts model; xAI says 25% of the weights are active on a given token (2 of 8 experts per the repository). ● Primary source[2]Model Details [4]Model Specifications
• Access consumer app, Open-weights downloadConsumer access started as limited early access for users in the United States; the open weights followed in March 2024. ● Primary source[1]Early Access to Grok [2]

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