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Grok

Real-time reasoning on live data

Some products can't wait for a training cut-off. This track covers building on Grok where freshness is the feature — live grounding, citation handling, and the guardrails that keep a fast-moving answer from becoming a confidently wrong one.

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xAI Grok APILive search groundingStreaming UIs
Who it's for
Engineers building news, market, research or monitoring products
Assumed background
Some experience calling an LLM API.
Delivered as
1-day intensive · private team workshop
Curriculum

What the track covers

Ordered the way we teach it. Private workshops reorder and reweight this against what your team already knows.

  1. 01

    The model family and its trade-offs

    Reasoning modes, context windows and cost — picking a tier deliberately instead of defaulting to the largest one.

  2. 02

    Grounding in live sources

    Wiring live search into the loop, then handling the part everyone skips: attribution, recency and conflicting sources.

  3. 03

    Tools against your own systems

    Function calling and structured responses so the model can query your data rather than guess at it.

  4. 04

    Streaming a long reasoning chain

    Interface patterns that keep a user oriented while the model thinks, and when to hide the reasoning entirely.

  5. 05

    Guardrails for moving targets

    Verification passes, confidence signals and the escalation path for answers that shouldn't be automated.

  6. 06

    Benchmarking against your incumbent

    Running Grok and your current model against the same evaluation set, on your own data, and reading the result honestly.

What you'll be able to do

  • Ship a feature that answers from live data with traceable sources
  • Decide between reasoning tiers on evidence rather than vibes
  • Design an escalation path for answers the model shouldn't own
  • Run a fair head-to-head evaluation between two model providers

Prepares you for

  • Certified LLM Application DeveloperAssociate · practical assessment
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Other tracks

Teams often pair a model track with Agentic Systems — the tool design and evaluation material applies whichever provider you settle on.

Claude CodeAgentic engineering in your own repository6 modulesChatGPTAssistants, GPT apps and workflow automation6 modulesOpen Source ModelsLlama, Mistral and Qwen on hardware you control6 modulesAgentic SystemsMulti-agent design, MCP and evaluation6 modules

Run Grok for your team

Send over your stack, your group size and roughly when you'd like it. We'll come back with a curriculum outline and a date.

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