Elon Musk Announces Enhanced Grok-1.5 Chatbot Set to Debut Next Week

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 Billionaire Elon Musk said Friday his artificial intelligence company xAI’s chatbot Grok-1.5 “should be available” to the public next week, after the chatbot became open-source and officially entered the rapidly growing AI chatbot market.


 

 Musk confirmed the news in a Friday post on X, after xAI’s account announced it in a blog post.

The latest model of the chatbot will be available to “early testers and existing Grok users,” according to the blog post, and has “improved reasoning capabilities and a context length of 128,000 tokens”—which is the amount of text the chatbot can process and store information on.

Musk also confirmed Grok 2 is in development, saying: “Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics. In training now.”

We estimate Musk to be worth about $195.3 billion. He is the third-richest person in the world, behind LVMH Bernard Arnault ($227 billion) and Jeff Bezos ($198.4 billion). Musk and Bezos have gone back-and-forth for the world’s second richest person more than a dozen times this month.

Earlier this month, Musk sued OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015 and later left in 2018, and its CEO Sam Altman. The lawsuit alleges the company has prioritized shareholders rather than fulfilling a pledge to make its ChatGPT model open-source.

Musk officially launched xAI last July in an effort to compete with OpenAI. The first version of Grok was released in November, with Musk announcing just a day later he would be merging his AI firm with social media platform X. The chatbot was initially restricted to X Premium+ users paying a $16 monthly subscription fee, but Musk announced he would open-source the chatbot to all users in early March. The landscape for AI chatbots has heated up in recent years, particularly after OpenAI launched its model ChatGPT in November 2022. Months later, in March 2023, Google entered the AI chatbot game with its release of its own model, dubbed Bard. After a heavily criticized rollout, Google introduced Gemini, another chatbot, in December. Google’s Gemini had a similar controversial rollout after generating historically inaccurate images, which led to Musk claiming the company’s AI arm is “racist” in a post on X.


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