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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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X gives Grok a new photorealistic AI image generator
X has given Grok a new AI image generator model called “Aurora” that seems to create far more photorealistic imagery than Grok’s other image generator, with similarly few apparent restrictions on what it will produce, TechCrunch reports. Like Grok, anyone can use Aurora. It lives in a new “Grok 2 + Aurora beta” option in the Grok model selector, though…
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X’s Grok directs to government site after sharing false election info
X has updated its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation. The AI assistant will now say “For accurate and up-to-date information about the 2024 US Elections, please visit Vote.gov,” when users ask election-related questions. The change was introduced after election officials from Minnesota, New Mexico, Michigan, Washington, and Pennsylvania sent a…
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The New Grok Image Generator Ignores Nearly All Safety Guardrails & It’s Scary
With an early beta release of Grok-2, Elon Musk-led xAI announced that it’s integrating an image generation model into its AI service. The image generation is powered by Flux, a new open-source model developed by Black Forest Labs. Now, xAI’s Grok image generator recently came under fire for seemingly having no safety guardrails to prevent users from generating potentially harmful…
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Don’t Sleep on Grok 2.0; It’s Powerful But Controversial
Elon Musk-led xAI released its state-of-the-art Grok 2.0 AI model in beta recently. In the blog post, xAI mentioned that Grok 2.0 scored 87.5% on the MMLU benchmark using 0-shot CoT which really surprised me. This squarely puts the model in GPT-4o’s territory, which has achieved a score of 87.7% in the same MMLU benchmark. I was curious to test…
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Grok can make images using Flux — 5 examples of it in action
The newest version of the AI chatbot Grok, Grok-2, can now generate images and we of course had to try it out. Thanks to the FLUX.1 model by Black Forest Labs, Grok-2 (currently in beta) can now create images that rival those generated by the likes of Midjourney — and when it comes to generating AI images of people it…
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