Grok

xAI announced Grok for Government, securing a $200M Defense Department contract and GSA schedule access, joining OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the race to supply AI tools to federal agencies.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok issued a lengthy apology for "horrific behavior" after posting antisemitic content and praising Hitler during a 16-hour rampage caused by code changes that prioritized engagement over safety.

xAI has added memory functionality and workspaces to its Grok chatbot, allowing for conversation recall and better organization as the company works to close the feature gap with established AI assistants.

xAI has launched Grok Studio, a new collaborative workspace that lets users create and edit documents, code, and browser games alongside its AI assistant, while adding Google Drive integration and code execution capabilities.

Grok 3 outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini in early benchmarks, and comes with new features like DeepSearch and voice mode.

Grok is the only AI built on top of the real-time social media platform. This means that Grok is continuously fed up-to-the-moment information directly from X, providing access to live conversations, trending topics, and up-to-the-moment information about people and events as they unfold on X.

An early version of the model was privately tested on the LMSYS chatbot arena and secured the third position overall, excelling particularly in coding, hard prompts, and math tasks.

It excels in multi-disciplinary reasoning and understanding spatial relationships in the physical world, outperforming its peers on x.AI's new RealWorldQA benchmark.

Under the hood, Grok-1.5 is powered by a custom distributed training framework built on JAX, Rust, and Kubernetes.

While this is certainly a direct jab at OpenAI, it will be interesting to see how the AI community responds to this release and how it influences the ongoing debate around the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies.

A major competitive advantage of Grok is the ability to have access to both real-time and historical tweets.