Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training. Evals look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come.
Fine-tuning is underway and reinforcement learning begins in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks to public release.
This will be a major improvement over the 0.5T v8-small that currently serves all Grok production traffic, especially for difficult coding tasks.
AI is not a replacement for understanding the fundamentals.
Those who master the basics have the most to gain from AI. It’s how you go from being a passive user to a power user.
I’m not a doomer at all, in fact I’m very optimistic about AI. I’m not saying you need to go back to boilerplate code, but many people who have no experience at all with coding are using AI as a replacement for learning the fundamentals. You absolutely must know what you’re doing so you can use AI more effectively. I very much want the world to move forward lol.