There are three main levers here: performance, cost, and speed.
If 4.7 is underperforming and isn’t what they hoped for, they’ve basically lost the performance lever with this model.
And imo, speed beyond what 4.6 already offers isn’t that important. But if they can pull the cost lever hard enough and make it significantly cheaper, this could still be a huge model drop.
Grok 4.7 should be roughly on par with Opus 5.0, not 5.1. Better in some ways, worse in others. We need to fix multimodal performance.
Grok 4.8 will be a noticeable improvement.
Grok 4.9 is probably Astra/Fable class.
Grok 5 maybe better than anything. We shall see.