Elon Musk's xAI to launch Grok 2 model soon
What's the story
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) firm, xAI, is gearing up to launch the beta version of its new AI model, Grok 2. The announcement was made by Musk himself via a social media post. He expressed confidence in the capabilities of this new model and suggested that it could outperform some of the leading AI models such as OpenAI's GPT-4 on most metrics.
Twitter Post
Musk's post hints at Grok 2's improved image generation capabilities
Grok 2 beta release soon pic.twitter.com/t6e9RcXPkl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 11, 2024
Competitive landscape
Grok 2's performance to be tested against AI industry leaders
The launch of Grok 2 beta comes at a time when other prominent AI industry players, OpenAI and Anthropic, have also released improved versions of their models. The performance of these AI models is tracked on the Large Language model leaderboard rankings at Huggingface. While there's no confirmation on the exact capabilities of Grok 2, the upcoming release could boast significant improvements in tasks like text and image generation, translation, code writing, and more.