Elon Musk-owned AI Chatbot Grok has announced the release of an upgraded version of Grok 1.5, as it intensifies rivalry with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The advanced version of Grok comes with improved reasoning and a context length of 128,000 tokens. 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.
Grok will be made available to early testers and existing Grok users on X in the coming days.
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Announcing the rollout of an upgraded Grok version, the company wrote via a blog post,
“Introducing Grok-1.5, our latest model capable of long context understanding and advanced reasoning. Grok-1.5 will be available to our early testers and existing Grok users on the X platform in the coming days. By releasing the model weights and network architecture of Grok-1 two weeks ago, we presented a glimpse into the progress xAI had made up until last November. Since then, we have improved reasoning and problem-solving capabilities in our latest model, Grok-1.5.”
“One of the most notable improvements in Grok-1.5 is its performance in coding and math-related tasks. In our tests, Grok-1.5 achieved a 50.6% score on the MATH benchmark and a 90% score on the GSM8k benchmark, two math benchmarks covering a wide range of grade school to high school competition problems. Additionally, it scored 74.1% on the HumanEval benchmark, which evaluates code generation and problem-solving abilities.”
One remarkable thing that sets Grok apart from other generative AI Chatbots is that the model responds to questions about politics that are typically off-limits to other models, like conspiracies and more controversial political ideas. The chatbot also has access to real-time information via the X platform which adds to its personality. It answers spicy questions that other AI systems may reject.
Elon Musk said one goal for his AI chatbot Grok, a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is to be the funniest chatbot, after criticizing other chatbots for being too woke, a direct jab at ChatGPT which was criticized for producing biased responses at times.
Musk has voiced strong criticism of ChatGPT’s perceived censorship of certain answers on certain topics, which according to him spurred the launch of Grok, to be a better representation of truth.
The billionaire owner of X (formerly Twitter) spoke with investor Cathie Wood in an X Spaces conversation about the future of Grok.
He said,
“Grok is pretty funny. I think one of our goals for Grok is to be the funniest AI. So I mean if you ask Grok to provide a vulgar roast, it’s really good.”
In his conversation with Wood, Musk added that Grok will be a significant truth improver.
“That is our goal, to be maximally truth-seeking, maximally curious, minimizing the error between perceived reality, and described reality, and actual reality,” he added.
Grok was created by xAI, a company founded by Musk in March 2023, and was released to the public in November. Grok is xAI’s generative AI chatbot, based on a large language model, the underlying algorithm that uses deep learning and analyses significant amounts of data to generate content.