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xAI just open-sourced Grok-1 — here is why that matters
DevToolsWeekly April 6, 2026
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xAI released Grok-1 weights under Apache 2.0. It's a 314B parameter MoE model. The architecture is interesting: 8 experts, 2 active per token, similar to Mixtral's approach but at a much larger scale. You'll need serious hardware to run it (at least 8x A100 80GB for bf16, or quantized down to fit on consumer GPUs with significant quality loss). But the signal it sends to the open-source community is significant.
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