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Elon Musk’s xAI Takes on OpenAI: Grok Gets Ready to Handle Your Selfies · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk podcast.
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  This is a show where we discuss. The critical.
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  Crossroads That Shape. SpaceX.
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  Tesla X, The Boring Company. And Neuralink.
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  I'm your host, Will Walden. Elon Musk's AI company Xai is
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  working to add multimodal inputs to its Grok chat bot.
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  Soon, users may be able to upload images to Grok and
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  receive text based responses. According to public developer
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  documents, this update is part of XA is ongoing efforts to
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  enhance Grok's functionalities. Last month, Xai hinted at these
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  developments in a blog post, stating that Grok 1.5 V would
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  offer multimodal models and a number of domains.
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  Latest updates in the developer documents indicate significant
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  progress towards launching this new feature.
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  Now, a sample Python script included in the developer
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  documents shows how developers can use the Xai Software
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  Development Kit or the SDK to generate responses based on both
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  text and images, and the script demonstrates reading an image
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  file, setting up a text prompt, and using the XAISDK to generate
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  a relevant response. This is the major enhancement
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  for Grok, which was first released in November of 2023.
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  Initially available to just X Premium Plus subscribers on X
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  and Grok received its last update in March with version
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  1.5, which improved its reasoning capabilities.
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  Now the training data for the model includes a variety of text
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  from publicly available Internet sources up to the third quarter
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  of 2023, along with data sets reviewed and curated by human
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  reviewers, notably Grok One was not trained on data from X,
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  formerly Twitter, though it has real time knowledge of the world
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  including public posts on X now now founded by Elon Musk in
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  March 2023, XAI is relatively new in the AI sector but aims to
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  close the gap with competitors like Open AIS, ChatGPT and
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  according to XA is blog post. Grok 1.5 is nearing GPT force
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  performance on various benchmarks, although benchmarks
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  are often critiqued for their susceptibility to being
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  memorized by these models. Now, the AI industry sees
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  multimodal conversational chat box is kind of the next step
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  with advancements from companies like Google and Open AI.
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  And until now, Grok's lack of multimodal capabilities placed
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  it well behind the competitors, but this new development aims to
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  bring them closer. Recently, Xai announced that
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  Grok's AI Search Assistant feature is being rolled out to X
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  Premium subscribers in Europe. Move aligns with the broader
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  trend of expanding AI functionalities to enhance user
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  experiences all over the world. And in a significant
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  announcement, Elon Musk unveiled key new updates for Grok.
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  These updates have generated considerable attention, and this
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  shows that Elon Musk and Grok are both evolving.
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  Grok has gained traction as a potential competitor to open
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  AI's offerings. A recent European launch limited
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  to Premium and Premium Plus subscribers shows that they're
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  trying to get into a new set of users.
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  A post from X Engineering along with comments from Musk detailed
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  several updates to Grok, and one of them is notable.
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  It's the ability for users to access their chat history on web
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  and iOS platforms, enhancing the usability and convenience of the
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  chat bot, something that ChatGPT has had for a very long time
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  now. Musk also teased the
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  introduction of a Quote Fun mode for Grok, which would provide a
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  humorous take on news. This update is part of Musk's
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  broader effort to refine AI technology for improved user
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  engagement and experience. Now this treads into some dark
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  waters. What kind of humor is this
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  using? And also, do you really want
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  your news to be funny? That's up to you as a user.
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  And now Fun Mode makes that available to you.
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  And amid the developments around Grok, the AI landscape continues
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  to be dynamic, especially with opening AI's recent partnership
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  with Reddit. This collaboration, led by Sam
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  Altman, has sparked optimism about his potential impacts on
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  the technology industry. Now think about this Open AI
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  with Reddit. Reddit has so many posts,
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  hundreds of thousands, millions of posts from multi millions of
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  users. So if you could drill into that
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  information and use that for your language model, you've got
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  a whole new bag of worms to use. However, Musk has downplayed
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  this, highlighting instead Grok's collaboration as a joke
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  with 4 Chan. This platform is known for its
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  diverse content and active community engagement.
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  It's also known as the cesspool of the Internet.
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  No offense fortune, you know who you are.
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  And despite Open AI strong position in the AI sector,
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  there's a belief amongst some users that Grok will present
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  significant competition. Innovations continue to reshape
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  Grok. Stakeholders are watching this,
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  and Open AI is watching Grok and as they continue to enhance it.
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  The addition of multimodal capabilities could set a new
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  standard for Grok, but it's still going to be behind
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  ChatGPT, and Google's chat bots. This feature would allow users
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  to interact with the AI in more diverse and flexible ways,
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  potentially increasing its utility and appeal to more
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  users. Now the process of Grok's
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  multimodal inputs is an important development for XAI.
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  This enhancement along with other ones positions Grok is a
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  more competitive player in the AI field, promising A richer
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  user experience, and they're playing catch up to the whole
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  industry. Hey, thank you so much for
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