- Will Grok 5 be released by October 31, 2026?<1¢<1%
- Will Grok 5 be released by November 30, 2026?3¢3%
- Will Grok 5 be released by December 31, 2026?16¢16%
xAI has not released Grok 5 as of late October 2026, with Grok 4.7 (shipped September 21) remaining the latest publicly available large language model. Repeated deadline misses—end of 2025, Q1 2026, and Q2 2026—combined with Elon Musk’s September 14 roadmap prioritizing Grok 4.8 (2.5 trillion parameters, finishing training then entering reinforcement learning) and 4.9 ahead of it, have driven market-implied odds for a 2026 release down to roughly 30% by year-end. xAI confirmed Grok 5 training in its January 2026 funding announcement, positioning the model as a potential AGI step with claimed scale around 6 trillion parameters, yet no firm date or benchmarks exist. Traders are monitoring the pace of 4.x updates, Colossus cluster expansions, and any official announcements that could accelerate or further delay the flagship release amid competition from other frontier labs.
Rules
This market will resolve to "Yes" if xAI's Grok 5 model is made available to the general public by the specified date (ET). Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No." Grok 5 refers to a product explicitly named Grok 5, or a model that is clearly recognized as xAI’s next flagship generation succeeding Grok 4. Models released under the Grok 4 generation, including Grok 4.6, Grok 4.7, or similar variants, will not qualify. Qualifying releases of task-specialized models or cost-efficiency variants will not count unless they are explicitly branded as Grok 5 or otherwise clearly announced by xAI as its next flagship Grok generation. For this market to resolve to "Yes," a qualifying model must be launched and publicly accessible, including via open beta or open rolling waitlist signups. A closed beta or any form of private access will not suffice. The release must be either clearly defined and publicly announced by xAI as being accessible to the general public or otherwise made publicly accessible and explicitly labeled within the company’s official website. Labeling errors, placeholder text, or version names displayed on the website that do not correspond to a model that is actually accessible to the general public will not qualify. The primary resolution source for this market will be official information from xAI, with additional verification from a consensus of credible reporting.