PANews reported on November 18th that, according to an official announcement from xAI, the new generation of large model Grok 4.1 has been launched, featuring enhanced conversational intelligence, emotion understanding, and real-world applicability. It is now available for free through grok.com and the X platform.

Grok 4.1 ranked first on Arena's leaderboard with an Elo score of 1483, achieved an EQ-Bench score of 1586, and scored an even higher 1722 on the creative writing test, an improvement of over 600 points compared to its predecessor. The official statement claims that 65% of users prefer Grok 4.1 responses.