Elon Musk, xAI CEO, introduces Grok AI – Essential details about this chatbot you should know

Grok AI, the humorous and sarcastic generative AI chatbot developed by xAI, an AI company owned by Elon Musk, has been eagerly anticipated by X (formerly Twitter) users for months. Initially, it was only available to a limited number of verified X Premium Plus users who were part of the beta testing phase. However, Musk has now revealed plans to make the chatbot accessible to all X Premium Plus users in the US, making this funny and “spicy” AI tool available to the wider public. With the official launch approaching, here are 10 essential facts about Grok AI that you should be aware of.

10 things you should know about Grok AI

1. Musk, who announced the chatbot at X, posted: “Grok AI (beta) is now live for all 𝕏 Premium+ subscribers in the US. There will be many problems at first, but expect rapid improvement almost every day. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Expanding to all English speakers users in about a week.”

2. Grok AI is a generation AI chatbot built on xAI’s native large language model (LLM) called Grok-1. XAI claims that the basic Grok-1 model was built in four months and has gone through several iterations during that time.

3. While the company has not disclosed details about Grok-1’s parameters, it has claimed that Grok-0, an earlier version of LLM, was built with 33 billion parameters.

4. The company claims that the Grok-1 has shown a remarkable 63.2 percent on the HumanEval coding task and 73 percent on the MMLU (Multi-task Language Understanding).

5. Based on its benchmarks, Grok-1 has outperformed GPT 3.5, LLaMa-2 (70B parameters) and Inflection-1 training models.

6. Unlike ChatGPT, Grok AI has a real-time database that comes from the X platform and contributes much of its training data.

7. Grok also allows the user to retype any part of the output as if it were the AI chatbot’s original response.

8. According to xAI researchers, “Grok is an AI modeled after Little Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so it aims to answer almost anything and, much more difficult, even suggest what questions to ask”.

9. Elon Musk claims that Grok is comfortable answering questions that most other AI chatbots can’t answer. In a screenshot shared by Musk, Grok was seen answering the question “how to make methane at home.” It didn’t give a recipe or a method, just the sarcastic response it’s known for.

10. For now, Grok AI is only available in the US. But next year it will be available in Japan and then in all other regions.