Everyone has been asking why Grok 4.8 hasn’t been released yet—Elon himself has now explained. Simply put: they’ve completely torn down and rebuilt the entire underlying system. They’re no longer using any existing tools—they’ve started from scratch, which is why it’s taken so long. The current progress: the foundational training is complete, and they’re now doing final fine-tuning. This change will be slower in the short term, but in the long run, if it runs faster and more efficiently, our experience using it will be much smoother. He also said it’s fundamentally different from 4.7—definitely worth looking forward to!