[xAI Releases Grok 4.1, Significant Enhancements in Emotional and Writing Abilities] According to the official announcement from xAI, the new-generation large model Grok 4.1 is now live, featuring stronger conversational intelligence, emotional understanding, and practical real-world applications. (It is now available for free on grok.com and the X platform.) Grok 4.1 ranks first on the Arena leaderboard with an Elo score of 1483, achieves an EQ-Bench emotional intelligence score of 1586, and scores an impressive 1722 in the creative writing test, an improvement of over 600 points compared to the previous generation. Officials state that users show a 65% preference rate for Grok 4.1's responses.