Elon Musk

Social media platform X, owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has been upgraded to the beta version of Grok-2, xAI’s new artificial intelligence tool designed for chat, coding and reasoning.
XAI, an AI startup founded by Musk, <a href="https://x.ai/blog/grok-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">introduced</a> the successor to its older generation Grok-1.5 AI model for X users on Aug. 13. The Grok-2 beta release includes two language models: Grok-2 and its lesser capable “sibling” Grok-2 mini. 
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Grok AI search assistant is available to X users with Premium or Premium+ memberships and is not included for users with standard memberships.
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Grok-2 integrates real-time information from X and applies text and vision understanding to solve complex user prompts. Grok-2 mini, on the other hand, is less capable and focuses on speed.
During Grok’s initial release in November 2023, Musk claimed that <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-launches-ai-chatbot-grok-says-it-can-outperform-chatgpt">Grok-1 outperformed OpenAI’s first iteration of ChatGPT</a> in several academic tests. Grok-1.5 was announced on April 12.
Continuing its growth, the beta version of Grok 2 gained notable recognition on Chatbot Arena, a platform that assesses large language models (LLMs) developed by the Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS Org). 
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As reported by LMSYS Org, Grok-2 matched numerous capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which was launched on May 13:
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However, ChatGPT-4o is ranked as the best AI assistant in terms of overall capabilities, followed by Google’s Gemini 1.5, which was introduced on Feb. 15.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/x-suspends-ai-data-collection-eu">Elon Musk’s X suspends data collection for AI training, EU watchdog says</a>
XAI will make Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini available to developers through an enterprise application programming interface, or API) by the end of August.
On May 27, xAI announced a $6 billion Series B funding round that raised its valuation to $24 billion in just 11 months.
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