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grok-2-2024-08-13

2 days in first place

It held first place on Arena in Text (2 days).

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Who held first place

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Credits LMArena.

The open-weights catch-up

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Credits LMArena.

The saturation clock

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Credits Epoch AI.

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Jesse Hawkins, “grok-2-2024-08-13 · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/grok-2-2024-08-13/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{hawkins2026frontiergrok220240813,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{grok-2-2024-08-13 · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/grok-2-2024-08-13/}},
  note = {Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities \& benchmarking, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-30}
}

Arena · LMArena

LMArena, "Arena leaderboard dataset", Hugging Face, revision 4491b06. https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset. CC BY 4.0.

Benchmarks · Epoch AI

Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource]. CC BY 4.0.

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Text: 2 days in first place

place 248 of 419 on 28 October 2026

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On the board: 23 August 2024 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1305 (1301–1308) on 28 October 2026 · 63,498 votes
First place: 15 September 2024 to 17 September 2024 · 2 days
Catch-up: Open weights matched it on 30 December 2024, 106 days after it first took first place: deepseek-v3.

Epoch AI: Grok-2 (Aug 2024)

released 13 August 2024 · API access

Epoch AI lists this model but has not run any of its own benchmarks on it.

Sources

Arena scores come from people voting between two anonymous answers. First place is the highest score; the top two are often within each other’s margin of error. LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, retrieved 30 October 2026; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, retrieved 30 October 2026. Both CC BY 4.0.