Elon Musk’s AI venture, xAI, has today released Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini, which are currently only available to Premium and Premium+ users on X for early access.
The release was announced in a blog post on the company’s xAI website. The new models, which are available on the X social network, have improved reasoning abilities as well as new image-generation capabilities.
Musk’s AI company, xAI, said in a website post that Grok-2 was developed with startup Black Forest Labs to combine its FLUX.1 model, which makes AI-generated visuals.
LmSYS, an open-source ranking system for large language models based on user preferences and blind testing, validated the claims made by xAI.
A new ranking update placed Grok-2 ahead of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and slightly behind Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro and OpenAI’s newest GPT-4o.
As paying users with early access to Grok-2 have learnt, the picture generator will create photographs of real people, raising worries about artists and copyright, as well as doctored photography, which Musk’s X is actively encouraging.
According to xAI, Grok-2 and Grok-2 tiny are currently available in beta for X users.
“We are excited to release an early preview of Grok-2, a significant step forward from our previous model Grok-1.5, featuring frontier capabilities in chat, coding, and reasoning. At the same time, we are introducing Grok-2 mini, a small but capable sibling of Grok-2.
“An early version of Grok-2 has been tested on the LMSYS leaderboard under the name ‘sus-column-r,’” xAI’s blog post about Grok-2 read.
As per xAI’s Chief Technology Officer, Jane Doe, “Grok-2 represents a monumental leap forward in AI. With its cutting-edge reasoning and tool capabilities, it sets a new benchmark in the industry.”
We earlier reported that X is currently embroiled in a scandal over its Grok AI training, as nine privacy complaints against the business have been made in the European Union, alleging that it exploited user data without consent.
