Grok Release Cadence: About One New Version per Month

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-09-10 · Open on X

Topics: Industry Trends & Job Market · Level: beginner

Summary

The post lists recent Grok releases: 4.5 (July 8), 4.6 (Aug 12) and 4.7 (Sep 12, upcoming). xAI is shipping a new model version about once a month. It is a useful data point on how quickly frontier models are being updated.

Key points

• Grok 4.5 released July 8.
• Grok 4.6 released Aug 12.
• Grok 4.7 expected Sep 12.
• That is roughly a monthly release cadence for Grok versions.

Resources mentioned

• Grok · tool · x.com · free
  xAI's AI assistant. Here it is used as a terminal coding agent that also runs with the 'agent' alias.
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