Musk posted that SpaceX could have a Fable/GPT-6 level model in 2 to 3 months and reach pole position in about 6.

In the posts we checked, he backed it with a GPU count and a growth-rate line, not a benchmark score.

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On X, Musk said he is cautiously optimistic SpaceX will have a Fable/GPT-6 level model in 2 to 3 months, and that SpaceX will reach pole position in about 6 months if its growth rate holds, as Yahoo Finance headlined.

Before you read on. Your call?

Nothing in the posts we checked ties either number to a benchmark score or a released model. What Musk offered was a GPU count, with Colossus 2 headed toward 1.2 million Blackwell GPUs by year end per Electronics Weekly, and a comparison of how many years each lab has existed.

The twist

Wccftech reported that Musk told China Media Group catching up to the frontier was most likely next year, not in months, and Benzinga reported that he agreed a chart ranking Grok behind Anthropic and OpenAI's models was accurate, adding for now.

2 to 3months Musk said on X he is cautiously optimistic SpaceX needs for a Fable/GPT-6 level model

about 6months Musk said SpaceX needs to reach pole position

1.2 millionBlackwell GPUs Electronics Weekly says Colossus 2 should have by year end

1.44 millionyear-end GPU total Electronics Weekly reports

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Say this in tomorrow's meeting“Musk did not publish a benchmark behind the 2-to-3-month or 6-month calls. He also told China Media Group that catching up to the frontier was most likely next year, and he agreed a chart ranking Grok behind Anthropic and OpenAI was accurate, for now.”

Receipts

Supports finance.yahoo.com: I am cautiously optimistic that SpaceX will have a Fable/GPT-6 level model in 2 to 3 months
Supports finance.yahoo.com: If our second derivative remains strong, SpaceX will reach pole position in about 6 months
Context finance.yahoo.com: Our AI efforts are only 3 years old, vs 6 and 10 years old for Anthropic and OpenAI
Context finance.yahoo.com: 220,000 GB300 GPUs operational next week, 220,000 more in November
Context web.archive.org: Musk called the rankings "accurate," adding the caveat "for now."
Refutes web.archive.org: Grok 4.6 and 4.7 land three tiers below the best-ranked model, and Grok 4.5 falls even further
Context electronicsweekly.com: Before the end of the year, Colossus 2 should have the final batch of 220,000 GB300 GPUs giving it 1.2 million Blackwell GPUs
Context electronicsweekly.com: With a year-end total of 1.44 million GPUs, Musk expects xAI's models to be as advanced as OpenAI's and Anthropic's
Refutes wccftech.com: So I would expect that we probably, catch up to frontier, sometimes, next year, most likely
Context wccftech.com: he admitted in mid-September that the Grok AI model's latest iteration, Grok 4.8, would significantly improve performance but still wouldn't be at par with OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Fable class of AI models
Context finance.yahoo.com: Colossus 1 has 150,000 H100, 50,000 H200, and 30,000 GB200; Colossus 2 has 110,000 GB200 and 440,000 GB300.

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