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Leak suggests xAI is getting ready to ship Grok 3.5
xAI, founded by Elon Musk, is preparing to launch Grok 3.5, the company’s next state-of-the-art AI model. Grok AI has been around for a year now. While it was late to the game, the Grok model is pretty decent, and it’s quite impressive what the company has achieved in a limited time. Right now, xAI offers Grok 3 to free…
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Why Did X’s Grok AI Keep Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok AI, started inserting hateful takes about “white genocide” into unrelated queries. Asking Grok a simple question like “are we fucked?” resulted in this response from the AI: “‘Are we fucked?’ seems to tie societal priorities to deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I’m instructed to accept as real based on…
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Meta Releases Llama 4 AI Models; Beats GPT-4o and Grok 3 in LMArena
After a gap of four months, Meta has released a new series of Llama 4 open-weight models. The new AI models are Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. Unlike earlier dense models, Meta has gone with the MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture this time, just like DeepSeek R1 and V3. And all Llama 4 models are…
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Grok AI blocked results saying Musk and Trump “spread misinformation”
Grok, Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, temporarily refused to respond with “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” according to xAI’s head of engineering, Igor Babuschkin. After Grok users noticed that the chatbot had been given instructions to not respond with those results, Babuschkin blamed an unnamed, ex-OpenAI employee at xAI for updating Grok’s system prompt without approval. In response…
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I Tested Grok 3, and It’s Not Worth the Price Hike
Earlier this week, xAI released Grok 3, the company’s most advanced AI yet, complete with a reasoning model and a DeepSearch feature. The company claims that it’s the “world’s smartest AI,” and Elon himself says it’s “outperforming anything that’s been released” so far. But is it really the “maximally truth-seeking AI” Musk says it is? Well, to spoil it for…
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI said he and Donald Trump deserve death penalty
Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that Trump deserved the death penalty…
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What is Grok AI? Is It Worth the Hype?
Amid a sea of generative AI products, Grok AI sets itself apart with a bold and irreverent personality. Developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, Grok’s unconventional tone may make it less suitable for business use compared with its competitors. However, Grok still holds its own among the leading foundation models of today, boasting strong test performance and competitive speed. 1 New…
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I put Grok vs MetaAI in a 7-round face-off — here’s the winner
Grok and MetaAI both started out as a chat interface for a social media platform but are gradually evolving into standalone tools rivaling the capabilities of ChatGPT and Gemini. Both of the bots can generate images, write code and create compelling stories and they also both “feel” different to engage with compared to the major players like ChatGPT, Gemini and…
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Grok Is Now Available Without an X Account
Grok really likes Elon Musk. Strange. Credit: Jake Peterson It’s 2025, which means every tech company needs to have its own AI bot, of course. X is no exception: Since late 2023, the site has offered a chatbot to its Premium subscribers, developed by sibling company xAI. While blue check accounts may enjoy their built-in AI solution, the vast majority…
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I put ChatGPT vs Grok to the test with 7 prompts — here’s the winner
Grok has come a long way in a very short time, going from a glorified “toy” feature in X to something rivaling the likes of ChatGPT, Claude and Google’s Gemini. Built by xAI, the Elon Musk-owned AI lab, Grok is in the process of leaving the confines of the X social media platform as the company is launching a standalone…
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