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Elon Musk says xAI finished training its 1.5-trillion-parameter Grok V9-Medium model using Cursor data for supplementary training

Public release is scheduled within two to three weeks.

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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.

10:48 PM · May 24, 2026 View on X

@eliebakouch We will open source the 0.5T model towards the end of this year. It should still be quite useful.

elieelie@eliebakouch

@elonmusk congrats! looking forward for the release :) any plan on open sourcing the 0.5T model? would be super cool

6:18 AM · May 25, 2026 · 32K Views
6:23 AM · May 25, 2026 · 44K Views

@elonmusk Excited to see

Elon MuskElon Musk@elonmusk

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.

5:48 AM · May 25, 2026 · 2.7M Views
7:30 AM · May 25, 2026 · 1.9K Views

> A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come. ok, maybe xAI is getting serious

Elon MuskElon Musk@elonmusk

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.

5:48 AM · May 25, 2026 · 2.7M Views
5:54 AM · May 25, 2026 · 3.5K Views

only 2-3 weeks for the RL phase of a 1.5T model is an interesting data point. also interesting that he mentioned cursor data was added before post training, they're likely doing heavy mid training like in composer 2.5 and wilkl focus heavily on code

Elon MuskElon Musk@elonmusk

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.

5:48 AM · May 25, 2026 · 2.7M Views
6:23 AM · May 25, 2026 · 5.5K Views

@elonmusk congrats! looking forward for the release :) any plan on open sourcing the 0.5T model? would be super cool

Elon MuskElon Musk@elonmusk

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.

5:48 AM · May 25, 2026 · 2.7M Views
6:18 AM · May 25, 2026 · 32K Views

@elonmusk huge!!

Elon MuskElon Musk@elonmusk

@eliebakouch We will open source the 0.5T model towards the end of this year. It should still be quite useful.

6:23 AM · May 25, 2026 · 44K Views
6:27 AM · May 25, 2026 · 3.4K Views
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