Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, levels up as it catches up with its main competitors in the huge language model (LLM) arena.
xAI, a startup founded by billionaire Musk last July in response to his qualms with OpenAI profit-generating model, made key features available upcoming version of Grok on Thursday: Grok-1.5.
According to the company, the latest version of LLM (a system that understands and generates text in human language) contains several significant improvements. The announcement focuses on Groka’s improved performance metrics – a stark contrast to the Groka brand as malicious, sarcastic an alternative to existing chatbots.
The company now touts Grok’s more sophisticated coding and math capabilities, bringing them closer to results seen with Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. On the MATH test – one of two math metrics covering problem-solving from elementary to high school – Grok-1.5 achieved an accuracy of 50.6%, the company said. This is more compared to the 23.9% result of Grok-1. Meanwhile, Gemini Pro 1.5 scored 58.5%, ChatGPT scored 52.9% and Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus, which released earlier this monthachieved 61%, the highest of any other AI model.
In addition to mathematics, Grok-1.5 also means improving the language capabilities of the model. The chatbot will be able to better understand long context and advanced reasoning, thanks to increased memory capacity by up to 16 times compared to the previous context length, xAI claims.
To be clear: Grok still lags behind almost every other major AI model on almost all criteria. Despite the odds, Musk he still boasts that the upcoming Grok-2 “will outperform current artificial intelligence in every respect,” adding that the next model is in the training phase.
Early testers and current users of Grok on X, which Musk acquired as Twitter in October 2022, will be able to try version 1.5 next week, Musk said in the same post on the site.
When xAI launched Grok in November, Musk invoiced the model as saucy and more handsome an addition to the existing AI landscape – with access to tons of knowledge and personality on the X platform.
xAI is trying to catch up with its well-received competitors. Perhaps to attract more users, Musk made Grok open source earlier this month. The move comes as Musk faces an ongoing lawsuit that ended in a spat with OpenAI, a company Musk helped found in 2015 but left three years later over ideological differences.
