Summary
Elon Musk has promised that Grok 5 will be the smartest AI in the world, and this video breaks down what is actually known about xAI’s next flagship model. Musk has said Grok 5 is a 6 trillion parameter model, double the 3 trillion parameter base behind Grok 3 and Grok 4, and that he sees roughly a 10% chance it reaches artificial general intelligence.
The video walks through the claimed upgrades: native multimodality across text, images, video and audio, real-time video understanding, stronger tool use, higher-quality training data, and training on the Colossus 2 supercomputer in Memphis. It also covers Musk’s comments on feeding the model SpaceX data, and his prediction that Grok 5 could come close to saturating Humanity’s Last Exam.
To put the promises in context, the presenter compares Grok 4.7 with the current leaders. On the Artificial Analysis Index, Gemini 4 Carbon sits at 59 while Grok 4.7 trails, and on Terminal Bench Grok 4.7 scores about 26% versus roughly 60% for GPT-6 Astra. The video also discusses why releasing a frontier model is so difficult, xAI’s claim that it is not benchmark-maxing, the role of the agent harness, and Grok’s consumer growth.
📺 Source: TheAIGRID · Published November 01, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
