Grok 5 is still deep in training on the massive Colossus II cluster.
Roughly 220k high-end NVIDIA GPUs are already online, with more being added.
Power draw is sitting around 1 GW and climbing.
The model is targeting the 6 to 10 trillion parameter range, which puts it in a completely different league from anything currently public.
Training has been running since at least January.
Elon recently confirmed it should arrive before the end of 2026 and will be trained on the full 25-year SpaceX engineering data set.
That combination of extreme scale plus proprietary real-world engineering data is the real story here.
This is not another incremental Grok 4.x update.
It is the much larger architectural and compute jump happening in the background while the smaller releases keep rolling out.
When it lands it should give SpaceX a serious internal edge on engineering, simulation and design problems that current models still struggle with.
Cursor is already running on the same cluster, so the jump in capability should show up there too.
No firm date yet, but the ambition on both compute and data is very real.
BREAKING: The US Government officially posts its largest July budget deficit in history, at -$432 billion, due to an acceleration in federal spending.
Interest on US debt rose +$26 billion from last July's levels to an alarming $118 billion for the month.
This puts total interest expense for FY2026 up to $1.17 trillion in FY2026.
As a result, interest expense has officially surpassed both National Defense and Medicare spending.
In other words, the US government now spends more money just on interest than it does to fund the entire US Military or to provide healthcare for seniors.
We cannot afford higher interest rates.
Update on shooting incident at/near In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho: KMVT reports "law enforcement is searching the hotel that’s overlooking the visitor center for the shooter." (There is a Twin Falls Visitor Center close to the In-N-Out.)
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