Where is Grok-2 Mini and Grok-3 (mini)?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 4/21/2026

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The post questions where xAI’s Grok-2 Mini and Grok-3 (mini) models are, suggesting they are overdue for public availability or open-sourcing.
It references an expectation that Elon Musk/xAI would open source models after release, but argues that this hasn’t happened yet.
The author notes that these models are now over a year old and may feel obsolete, even though they would still be valuable.
The post argues that releasing prior versions soon after newer deployments (e.g., releasing an earlier model after a faster newer deployment) would be more useful to the community.
Overall, it expresses a desire for more xAI models to be open sourced in a timely manner.

I think Elon promised to open source models few months after their release? They're all over 1 year old now. It would be much more useful to release the models immediately upon deployment of the newer version (i.e. Grok 4.2 fast deployed -> release Grok 4.1 fast), now the models are kind of obsolete - but still, I'd like to see more models open sourced by xAI, even if we can't get them on time.

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