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Grok 2
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by xAI
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RANKED #207 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #318 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 5.2 · 252 VOICES
xai-org_grok-2-GGUF on Hugging Face (text generation). 2,618 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY7.0
15 mentions
SAD8.0
18 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 235 voices
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Grok 2 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
Estimated ~270B MoE parameters, weights take ~500 GB in FP8 requiring multi-GPU servers
- BARE MINIMUM
Custom multi-GPU rig with 8x RTX 3090 24GB GPUs
192 GB VRAM + 256 GB SYSTEM RAM
~$7500 USEDModel is too big for single consumer hardware; requires TP=8 multi-GPU setup, 4-bit quant, ~15 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Enterprise 8x NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM server
640 GB VRAM
~$80000 USEDOfficial TP=8 FP8 release checkpoint on SGLang, full context, ~45 tok/s
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA DGX H100 8x H100 80GB server
640 GB HBM3 VRAM
~$300000 NEWFP8 native throughput, maximum context window, ~80 tok/s
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN GROK 2?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Grok 2 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMCustom multi-GPU rig with 8x RTX 3090 24GB GPUs | SWEET SPOTEnterprise 8x NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM server | FULL POWERNVIDIA DGX H100 8x H100 80GB server |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~1.7 MIN★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~19 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~8.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.7 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~28 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.2 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~17 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.1 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Grok 2 yet to call it. We found 252 posts but people did not say much either way.
200 POSTS · 52 COMMENTS · GITHUB · X · LEMMY · REDDIT · BLUESKY
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Grok 2.
DeepSeek Reasoner
GLM 5.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2024-08-16 · 799 UPVOTESPSA: All the images generated by Grok are actually done by the great model by the Flux team who open sourced it, please give the credit to…
PSA: All the images generated by Grok are actually done by the great model by the Flux team who open sourced it, please give the credit to the right people
- REDDIT · 2025-08-23 · 782 UPVOTESxAI open sourced Grok-2, a ~270B model
xAI open sourced Grok-2, a ~270B model
- REDDIT · 2024-08-15 · 540 UPVOTESImages generated by Grok, like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with guns, go viral on X, raising questions…
Images generated by Grok, like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with guns, go viral on X, raising questions about Grok's guardrails.
- REDDIT · 2025-07-15 · 372 UPVOTESGrok Waifu arent stopping here..
Grok Waifu arent stopping here..
- REDDIT · 2024-12-14 · 347 UPVOTESThe new Grok 2 model is generating highly photorealistic images of people.
The new Grok 2 model is generating highly photorealistic images of people.
- REDDIT · 2025-12-17 · 338 UPVOTESGPT 1.5 Image vs Nano Banana Pro vs Seedream 4.5 vs Flux 2 Max vs Grok 2 Image
GPT 1.5 Image vs Nano Banana Pro vs Seedream 4.5 vs Flux 2 Max vs Grok 2 Image
- REDDIT · 2024-08-14 · 335 UPVOTES"sus-column-r" was an early version of Grok 2 and is beating 3.5 Sonnet on LMSYS
"sus-column-r" was an early version of Grok 2 and is beating 3.5 Sonnet on LMSYS
- REDDIT · 2025-02-12 · 311 UPVOTESI built a deep research agent with Perplexity API that works as well if not better than OpenAI's Deep Research
I built a deep research agent with Perplexity API that works as well if not better than OpenAI's Deep Research
- REDDIT · 2024-08-23 · 288 UPVOTESGrok-2 says Hi
Grok-2 says Hi
- REDDIT · 2026-06-16 · 253 UPVOTESCompetition is about to get real. OpenAI better raise their game
Competition is about to get real. OpenAI better raise their game
- REDDIT · 2024-09-21 · 239 UPVOTESGrok 3 is training with 10X, soon 20X the compute of Grok 2
Grok 3 is training with 10X, soon 20X the compute of Grok 2
- REDDIT · 2024-08-14 · 237 UPVOTESGrok 2 Benchmarks
Grok 2 Benchmarks