Elon Musk has unveiled the primary AI mannequin developed by xAI, a startup created by the proprietor of the microblogging platform previously often known as Twitter. Dubbed ‘Grok’, the brand new AI mannequin is designed to compete with rival know-how supplied by ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. It should additionally provide a model of Musk’s humour recurrently seen in his posts on X. The chatbot is at the moment being examined by a small variety of customers and can solely be accessible to X Premium+ subscribers, in accordance with the Tesla CEO.
In a weblog put up on Sunday, xAI introduced that it was rolling out entry to the Grok prototype to a “restricted variety of customers” within the US forward of a wider launch. The startup has additionally revealed it can add assist for brand new options and performance over the approaching months and customers can be a part of a waitlist to check out the brand new Grok chatbot on the xAI web site. Grok can be out there via X and a standalone app, in accordance with Musk.
As quickly because it’s out of early beta, xAI’s Grok system can be out there to all X Premium+ subscribers
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2023
The AI startup has touted a few of the Grok chatbot’s options, together with the power to entry real-time info from X, and the power to counsel questions. Nonetheless, the corporate has additionally warned that Grok has a “rebellious streak” and can provide solutions with “a little bit of wit”. Based on the agency, the chatbot was skilled over a interval of two months.
It runs on xAI’s new giant language mannequin (LLM), dubbed Grok-1. Whereas growth began 4 months in the past, the startup says that the LLM has gone via a number of iterations and is at the moment able to scoring 63.2 % on the HumanEval coding activity. It additionally scores 73 % on the Large Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) dataset, in accordance with the corporate.
There isn’t any phrase on when Grok can be out there to all customers, however Musk introduced by way of X that entry can be restricted to paying subscribers. When Grok is launched to the general public, X Premium+ subscribers who pay $16 (roughly Rs. 1,300) a month will be capable of use the chatbot by way of the microblogging platform.
