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Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has released two new versions of its Grok chatbot i.e., the Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini. advancing the company’s roadmap for AI. it’s been more than a year x-AI has made significant progress releasing the Grok-1 in November 2023 followed by the multi mode Grok 1.5V in April earlier this year. The introduction of the Grok-2, with its improved specs and new capabilities, marks another major step in the company’s rapid growth.
Grok-2 the flagship model of xAI has shown competitive results in recent trails. The original version tested as “up-column-r” in the LMSYS chatbot arena, secured third place in overall, best in coding & complex requests and math tasks.
xAI says the Grok-2 beats the Claude 3.5 Sonnet , GPT-4 Turbo in LMSYS overall Elo scores. In popular academic parameters the efficiency of the model was in line with other limit models such as GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Llama 3, & Gemini 1.5.
The Grok-2 Mini is a smaller but more capable version that aims to balance speed and quality. Both models are now available to Grok users on the X Social Platform, with the company’s API releasing this month.
A new feature of the new Grok model is their imaging capability i.e., powered by Black Forest Lab’s Flux 1 model. Users can create and share photos directly on X via text or DM.
However, this new capability raises serious questions about the authenticity of content on social media. Currently, there appears to be limited protection around editable content, with users already creating images that show the likeness of political figures.
Additionally, there are no visible signs in X to indicate that the images are generated using AI, which can cause misinformation or misinformation issues.
Additionally, there appears to be no support for digital water-marking techniques and content tags embedded in generated images.
In x-AI defense, it’s worth noting that Flux 1 is an open source model and so users can access these capabilities regardless of their Grok integration. The company could argue that it values freedom of speech & principles that are central to Elon’s vision for X.
However, this situation brings up some important questions in the AI ethics debate about responsibility and liability in relation to AI-generated content. Who should be responsible for inappropriate or illegal content – the individual, the model provider and/or the platform? Should AI tools be designed to filter certain languages or restrict the creation of certain types of content, or do they infringe on personal freedom?
These are difficult issues. And it would be wise for the AI industry and society at large to debate and discuss them before these technologies become more accessible and widespread.
It’s worth noting that xAI has shared some technical details about the Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini. Important information such as context length and pattern size are still unknown. This makes it difficult to accurately assess and evaluate the capabilities and potential limitations of these new models.
Both models will be available to X Premium and Premium+ users, and the Enterprise API will be released this month. As this is a beta version, more improvements and more detailed technical information may be coming soon.
Another thing: it’s not clear if the Grok-2 is a multi-mode model. The previous generation Grok-1.5V can handle a variety of visual inputs such as documents, charts and images, but xAI did not say whether the Grok-2 will retain these capabilities. The company announced results for the Grok-1.5V earlier in RealWorldQA benchmarks, demonstrating its ability to think at multiple levels and understand spatial relationships. This measurement is not mentioned in the Grok-2 announcement.
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