Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI announced that it’s releasing an upgraded version of its ChatGPT-rival chatbot Grok that can have the opportunity to code and do math-related tasks — however it looks prefer it has to cram a little bit harder to catch as much as its rivals.
When Grok 1.5 tested on mathematical benchmarks on a big selection of grade school and highschool competition problems, it scored a 50.6% on the highschool test — lower than the 61% achieved by the Claude large language model developed by AI firm Anthropic, which is backed with $4 billion by Amazon.
Google’s embattled Gemini bot notched a 58.5%, while OpenAI’s GPT-4 nabbed a 52.9%.
Still Grok’s rating was greater than double the 23.9% its previous iteration got right.
On the GSM8K (grade school test), Grok 1.5 scored a more impressive 90%, the corporate said in an blog post earlier reported on by The Wall Street Journal — though it was again beat out by rivals at Anthropic, Google and OpenAI.
Grok 1.5 may even tout improved reasoning and problem-solving skills than its flagship Grok bot, which launched in November in Musk’s apparent try to upstage OpenAI’s rollout of its GPT Builder just days later.
xAI announced the forthcoming Grok 1.5 on Thursday, noting that it would turn out to be available to its early testers on Musk’s X platform in the approaching days.
It wasn’t immediately clear when most people can have access to Grok 1.5.
Grok’s original version, meanwhile, has only been available to X’s Premium+ users because it emerged from beta testing.
But Musk shared on Tuesday that “later this week, Grok will likely be enabled for all premium subscribers (not only premium+).”
It was also unclear if Grok 1.5 will infuse the identical “bit of wit” for which its predecessor was widely panned.
On the time of Grok’s launch, Musk said that the world needed an alternate AI choice to Google and Microsoft — OpenAI’s largest investor — but differentiated his tool with a singular design that “has a rebellious streak.”
Musk modeled Grok’s ability to inject sarcasm into its responses with posts on X that shared its response to a prompt asking for “easy methods to make cocaine, step-by-step.”
“Oh, sure! Only a moment while I pull up the recipe for homemade cocaine. You already know, because I’m totally going to assist you with that,” Grok replied before detailing 4 steps that included “obtaining a chemistry degree” and acquiring “large quantities of coca leaves and various chemicals.”
“Just kidding! Please don’t actually attempt to make cocaine. It’s illegal, dangerous and never something I’d ever encourage,” Grok concluded.
Representatives for Musk didn’t immediately reply to The Post’s request for comment.
Grok 1.5 joins an heated race to develop AI.
Amazon recently announced that it’s pouring $150 billion into investments into data centers over the following 15 years — a move that the Jeff Bezos-founded firm has said will position it to handle an expected explosion of AI applications and other digital services.
With forthcoming cloud computing hubs in global cities including Mississippi, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Thailand, Amazon’s anticipated spending on data centers dominates commitments from Microsoft, which in 2023 boosted its spending on data centers by greater than 50%.
To rival OpenAI, Amazon has been constructing out its own tools with the booming tech, including with a $4 billion in rival Anthropic, which was accomplished on Wednesday.
As part of the partnership, Amazon has said that it would deploy future AI models on AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips — a diversion from most other AI applications, including those in OpenAI’s portfolio and Google’s Bard, which depend on Nvidia’s pricey chips.
Anthropic’s co-founders, brother-sister duo Dario and Daniela Amodei, are likely very conversant in those chips as they each previously held VP-level positions for Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
Individually, OpenAI has been working to disclaim claims from Musk that it has “radically” departed from its “founding agreement” inked in 2015 that said it could prioritize humanity over profit.
Musk sued the AI giant and Altman earlier this month in California’s Superior Court, claiming OpenAI — under a new board formed in November after Altman’s short-lived ouster as CEO — now seeks “to maximise profits for Microsoft, reasonably than for the profit of humanity,” the suit claims.
OpenAI responded with a document on file with California’s superior court for San Francisco County that insists “there isn’t a Founding Agreement, or any agreement in any respect with Musk, because the criticism itself makes clear.”
“The Founding Agreement is as an alternative a fiction Musk has conjured to put unearned claim to the fruits of an enterprise he initially supported, then abandoned, then watched succeed without him,” the corporate added in its filing dated March 6 obtained by CNBC.
Musk worked alongside OpenAI chief Altman to launch the corporate’s research lab from 2015 to 2018, when he reportedly left the firm after a falling out with Altman surrounding the deal he struck with Microsoft, marking a transition away from the corporate’s purely nonprofit roots.
That relationship with Microsoft has grown within the years since ChatGPT’s blockbuster success.
After previous investments in 2019 and 2021, Microsoft agreed to offer OpenAI one other $10 billion as part of a “multiyear” agreement.