Elon Musk reveals Grok chatbot’s major milestone

In a remarkable breakthrough, Elon Musk has announced a significant achievement for xAI’s Grok chatbot, highlighting its rapid progress in the field of AI coding assistance.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Tesla and SpaceX CEO revealed that Grok Code Fast 1, xAI’s AI-powered coding assistant, surpassed 2.2 trillion tokens processed.

For those uninitiated, tokens are units of text or data that AI models process, with this figure roughly equal to 1.5 trillion words.

The milestone puts Grok ahead of competitors like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT models by a margin of four to ten times in developer adoption for coding tasks.

Grok Code Fast was designed specifically for “agentic” coding workflows. Unlike general-purpose AI models, it was trained on programming-heavy data sets and refined with real-world examples such as pull requests and practical coding problems. 

This focus allows it to assist developers more effectively in live environments.

The model is also optimised for tool-specific commands, including grep searches, file editing, and terminal operations, making it highly compatible with integrated development environments (IDEs).

While rival models such as OpenAI’s o1-mini and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 may achieve higher benchmark accuracy on some tasks, Grok Code Fast prioritises speed, responsiveness, and integration.