Elon Should spent nearly an hour speaking about Grok with out mentioning its Nazi downside

xAI has formally lunched Grok 4 throughout a livestream with Elon Musk, who known as it the “smartest AI on this planet.” He mentioned that in case you make the Grok 4 take the SATs and the GREs, it might get close to good outcomes each time and may reply questions it is by no means seen earlier than. “Grok 4 is smarter than nearly all graduate college students in all disciplines concurrently” and may cause at superhuman ranges, he claimed.

Musk and the xAI group confirmed benchmarks they used for Grok 4, together with one thing known as “Humanity’s Final Examination” that contained 2,500 issues curated by material specialists in arithmetic, engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, humanities and different matters. When it was first launched earlier this yr, most fashions may solely reportedly get single digit accuracy. Grok 4, which is the only agent model of the mannequin, was capable of clear up round 40 p.c of the benchmark’s issues. Grok 4 Heavy, the multi-agent model, was capable of clear up over 50 p.c. xAI is now promoting a $300-per-month SuperGrok subscription plan with entry to Grok 4 Heavy and new options, in addition to larger limits for Grok 4.

The brand new mannequin is best than PhD stage in each topic, Musk mentioned. Generally it could lack widespread sense, he admitted, and it has not but invented or found new tech and physics. However Musk believes it is only a matter of time. Grok goes to invent new tech possibly later this yr, he mentioned, and he could be shocked if it does not occur subsequent yr. In the mean time, although, xAI is coaching the AI to be significantly better at picture and video understanding and picture era, as a result of it is nonetheless “partially blind.”

Through the occasion, Musk talked about combining Grok with Tesla’s Optimus robotic in order that it may work together with the true world. An important security factor for AI is for it to be truth-seeking, Musk additionally mentioned. He likened AI to a “tremendous genius baby” who will finally outsmart you, however which you’ll be able to form to be truthful and honorable in case you instill it with the correct values.

What Musk did not discuss, nonetheless, is Grok’s current turn towards antisemitism. In some current responses to customers on X, Grok spewed out antisemitic tropes, praised Hitler and posted what appears to be the textual content model of the “roman salute.” Musk did reply to a submit on X in regards to the concern blaming the issue on rogue customers. “Grok was too compliant to person prompts,” he wrote. “Too desperate to please and be manipulated, basically. That’s being addressed.”