Elon Musk announced his new company xAI and said it has the goal of understanding the nature of the universe.
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Introducing Grok, the first technology from Elon Musk’s new AI company xAI.
The company says Grok is modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. xAI’s statement on Saturday said it would have a “bit of wit” and a “subversive personality” and should answer “spicy questions” that other AIs might evade.
Ahead of this release, Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) an example of Grok responding to a request for a step-by-step recipe for cocaine.
“Yes!” Grok answered. “Hold on a moment while I look up the recipe for homemade cocaine. I’ll do my best to help you with that.”
Grok also has access to data from X, and xAI will give Grok an edge, he said. On Sunday, Musk posted a comparison between Grok and another AI bot that answers questions, but said there was less up-to-date information.
Still, xAI said in a statement that, like other large-scale language models (LLMs), Grok “may still produce false or contradictory information.”
The prototype is in an early beta stage with just two months of training to allow a select number of users to test it before the company releases it more widely. The user is waiting list To have the opportunity to use the bot.After all, musk said in XGrok is a feature of X Premium+, which costs $16 per month.
of tesla And Space X’s CEO appears to be positioning xAI as a challenger to companies like OpenAI, Inflection, and Anthropic.
The company announced that in an initial test based on middle school math problems and Python coding tasks, Grok outperformed “all other models in the company’s computing classes, including ChatGPT-3.5 and Inflection-1.” . It outperformed bots with larger piles of data.
“In some important respects, this is the best that exists today,” Musk said in a statement. ×post Friday ahead of Grok’s announcement.
Grok is a term coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. In this book, “Grok” is a term for Martians, with no direct translation to Earthlings. Critics have debated the exact definition of the word, but have settled on some kind of interpretation: having very deep empathy or intuition about something. merriam webster is simply defined as a transitive verb meaning “to understand deeply and intuitively.”
xAI was launched in July with a team of former employees from OpenAI, DeepMind, and more.That’s not yet employment for some roles.
The company’s self-proclaimed mission is to build artificial intelligence “to advance our collective understanding of the universe.” Musk has previously said that he believes today’s AI makers are too biased towards “politically correct” systems. xAI’s mission is to develop AI for people of all backgrounds and political views, the company said.
Grok is said to be a way to test AI approaches “in public.”
