xAI founder Elon Musk has revealed that the latest release of his startup's AI model, Grok, will be rolled out to X users starting next week.
What Happened: Musk took to X, formerly Twitter, to claim that "Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics."
This comes a few hours after xAI announced a major update to Grok with improvements across the board in various metrics like reasoning, capabilities, understanding context, and more.
Should be available on X next week. Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics. In training now.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2024
xAI claims the latest version of Grok is better than OpenAI's GPT-4, Alphabet Inc.'s Google Gemini, Anthropic's Claude 3, and Mistral Large.
"One of the most notable improvements in Grok-1.5 is its performance in coding and math-related tasks," xAI said.
One of the key features of Grok-1.5 is its ability to process long contexts of up to 128K tokens within its context window.
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This allows Grok to have an increased memory capacity of up to 16 times the previous context length, enabling it to utilize information from substantially longer documents and more complex prompts.
Why It Matters: Musk's announcement comes on the heels of Grok-1.5's release. While xAI said the model will be available to testers "soon," Musk has now confirmed the rollout will begin next week.
Meanwhile, xAI has also open-sourced Grok, and Deepwater Asset Management's Gene Munster believes this would allow Musk's AI startup to attract significant funding, directly challenging OpenAI.
Furthermore, the announcement comes amid a competitive landscape in the AI industry. A new open-source model released by AI startup Databricks is said to outperform Meta's Llama 2 and xAI's Grok-1.
It remains to be seen how Grok-1.5 fares against Databricks' DBRX.
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