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Musk’s new Grok upgrade allows X users to create largely uncensored AI images

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of Donald Trump and catgirls created with Grok, which uses the Flux image synthesis model. reader comments 75 On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI announced the beta release of two new language models, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, available to subscribers of his social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The… Read More »

Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”

Enlarge / Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. reader comments 228 On Monday, Elon Musk announced the start of training for what he calls “the world’s most powerful AI training cluster”… Read More »

Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI

Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. reader comments 61 On Sunday, Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a large language model designed to compete with the models that power OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The open-weights release through GitHub and BitTorrent… Read More »

Elon Musk’s AI bot, Grok, speaks as if made by OpenAI in some tests, causing a stir

reader comments 16 Grok, the AI language model created by Elon Musk’s xAI, went into wide release last week, and people have begun spotting glitches. On Friday, security tester Jax Winterbourne tweeted a screenshot of Grok denying a query with the statement, “I’m afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI’s use… Read More »

Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks via video link at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. REBECCA BAILEY/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 152 with On Wednesday, Elon Musk formally announced the formation of xAI, a company aimed at understanding “the true nature of the universe”… Read More »