My extremely cynical guess would be that they needed a distraction from Grok having "gone insane" again so they decided to release what they had and threw together an event as quickly as possible.

Except this was announced like a week ago

I think that's middle of workday for xAI.

9pm Pacific Time

Midnight New York Time

5am London Time

12pm Hong Kong Time

Are you suggesting the GP is not the center of the universe?

pointy hair people are already in bed. only cracked people are awake.