Grok Enters the Chat

PLUS: Enterprise Grok

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AI For All
August 16, 2024

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Hello readers,

Welcome to another edition of This Week in the Future! Elon Musk’s xAI has released Grok-2, challenging Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo (enterprise API and controversial image generator included). Can Grok prove its worth? Let’s find out!

Grok Enters the Chat

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Elon Musk’s xAI released Grok-2 in beta, and it’s already entered the conversation for most capable LLM, challenging the likes of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo. It’s also stirring controversy as its image generation feature, powered by FLUX from Black Forest Labs, appears to have no guardrails. Here’s how Grok stacks up:

Enterprise Grok

That’s right, Grok has an enterprise API. It’s not clear what the value is over OpenAI or Anthropic (which just reduced its API cost by 90% using prompt caching), but you might get speed and lower cost with Grok-2 mini as well as real-time disinformation information from X, which could be useful for certain applications.

Our Take

Grok is ostensibly intelligent (like its creator), but it’s also just another sub-ChatGPT LLM. Musk seems to be under the impression that “scale is all you need” and is about to spend billions playing catch-up. However, to play devil’s advocate, it’s been shown that the more LLMs are restricted, the less useful they become. Grok may eventually outperform the competition just by virtue of having less guardrails because it’s allowed to be creative and think freely, but at what cost?

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