Elon Musk says xAI’s Grok model will overtake Anthropic’s Claude within months as the company brings new computing capacity online.
In a post on X, Musk lays out a timeline tied to the launch of Colossus 2, xAI’s massive, gigawatt-scale AI supercomputer being built in Memphis.
“June… We understand what needs to be done and will get pretty close by April and roughly similar by May, so probably better by June when Colossus 2 is fully operational.”
But by June, Musk says that the top AI models designed for coding will be almost perfect, making coding a “generic product” this year.
“By then, like a self-driving car that drives perfectly, it will be hard to tell the difference between the leading coding models, as they will so rarely get anything wrong.”
The LMArena AI leaderboard shows that users rank Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking as the best model for text and Claude Opus 4.6 as the number one model for coding. Meanwhile, Grok 4.1 Thinking sits at the eighth spot for text, and it ranks 41st for coding.
Claude Opus 4.6 is also consistently ranked the number one coding model based on benchmark tests.
Just last week, the model evaluation group METR said that Claude Opus 4.6 can work on complex software tasks for nearly 15 hours at a time before performance degrades. METR said the figure represents the highest point estimate recorded so far.
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