Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts | EUROtoday

Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled Grok 4, the most recent AI mannequin from xAI, his multibillion-dollar initiative to rival OpenAI and Google. Without citing detailed proof, Musk claimed that the mannequin aces standardized assessments and displays doctorate-level information in a big selection of various disciplines.

“Grok 4 is a postgrad-level in everything,” Musk stated throughout an hour-long stay broadcast, which started after midnight in New York. “At least with respect to academic questions, Grok 4 is better than PhD level in every subject. No exceptions.”

xAI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from WIRED about whether or not it plans to publish an official technical report about Grok 4 detailing its capabilities and limitations. Competing AI builders, akin to OpenAI and Google, have routinely launched comparable publications for his or her fashions.

Users can entry Grok 4 by means of the Grok web site or app for $30 a month. Access to a bigger model often called Grok 4 Heavy prices $300 per 30 days. Later this 12 months, xAI goals to launch further fashions which might be nicely fitted to software program coding duties and producing video, based on Thursday’s presentation.

Musk, who serves as xAI’s CEO, didn’t deal with current criticism of Grok. Over the previous few days, a model of the AI constructed into Musk’s X social media platform praised Adolf Hitler and supplied antisemitic responses to a number of prompts from X customers. In response, xAI, which owns X, introduced Tuesday it will be taking motion to “to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.” On Wednesday, Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, introduced she was leaving the corporate with out elaborating on her reasoning or plans.

During Thursday’s livestream, Musk stated that, based on his “biological neural net,” AI techniques must be optimized “to be maximally truth seeking” and inspired “to be truthful, honorable, good things—like the values you want to instill in a child that would ultimately grow up to be incredibly powerful.”

Musk cofounded xAI in 2023 after OpenAI launched ChatGPT and triggered a surge of funding in generative AI applied sciences that may robotically produce textual content, code, audio, pictures, and movies. xAI launched the primary model of Grok in November of that 12 months, and Grok 2 debuted final August. Grok 3, which was launched this previous February, is obtainable without spending a dime.

Musk has stated that Grok was designed to have a way of rumor and rebelliousness. On its web site, xAI says its mission is to create correct AI techniques and assist folks acquire information.

Thursday’s late evening product announcement started over an hour not on time and featured Musk sitting on a sofa with two xAI colleagues in entrance of a darkish background. The trio boasted about Grok’s capabilities, displaying slides that aimed to point out how the mannequin outperforms different AI applications. But Musk additionally acknowledged it nonetheless has important weaknesses.

“These are still primitive tools, not the kind of tools that serious commercial companies use,” he stated.

Musk predicted that Grok would uncover new applied sciences subsequent 12 months, if not as quickly as later this 12 months. Yet, he stated, “at times it may lack common sense, and it has not yet invented new technologies, or discovered new physics.”