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Grok-1

X.AI·

LLMsopen-weightlocalMulti-GPU Self-Host

Overview

314B MoE (86B active) open-weight model released under Apache 2.0. Largest open-weight model at the time of release.

Capabilities and innovations

314B total / 86B active MoE8 experts, 2 activeApache 2.0 licenseLargest open-weight model at releaseLargest Open-Weight MoE at LaunchApache 2.0 Full Weight Release

Benchmarks

No benchmark values are recorded for this model.

  • GPQA Diamond: not reported by the vendor
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): benchmark did not exist at release
  • SWE-bench Verified: not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Pro: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMLU: not reported by the vendor
  • MMLU-Pro: benchmark did not exist at release
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMMU-Pro: benchmark did not exist at release

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
314B total, 86B active per token (MoE)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~181 GB, Multi-GPU Self-Host class

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