Elon Musk's xAI drops Grok 4
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As Grok fired off replies on X praising Hitler, the chatbot's parent company also recently got permission to emit 97 tons of carbon monoxide per year to keep it running.
Elon Musk denies xAI's fundraising, but the potential $200 billion valuation shows rapid growth and ambition in AI.
According to the Financial Times, xAI plans to spend $18 billion on expanding its compute infrastructure. The company trains its models using a supercomputer called Colossus that is located in Memphis. Earlier this year, Musk stated that xAI plans to increase the number of graphics cards in the system from 200,000 to 1 million.
Theo-gg who has been critical of XAI in the past, confirms that XAi Grok 4 is the top model. However, Grok 4 is slow and is not the best at coding yet. It is
Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, was updated over the weekend with instructions to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect” — part of Musk’s ongoing attempt to shape the bot’s point of view.
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Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it the “world’s smartest AI” and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and outpace rivals such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s o3 on tough benchmarks
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