Elon Musk unveils Grok, xAI's advanced LLM, to rival OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude 2

Elon Musk has unveiled xAI's leading AI product, "Grok," a Large Language Model (LLM) that offers real-time data, efficiency, and "humor". The name "Grok" implies understanding and puts it in direct competition with other LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude 2. For now, Grok is accessible to a select group of users in the United States, with a waitlist for early access through the X social network. The pricing details are yet to be announced.

Grok-0, the initial prototype, was developed using 33 billion data parameters, which is more than the 20 billion parameters used by OpenAI's GPT-3.5, but less than newer models like Meta's Meta Llama, which uses 70 billion. Despite this, xAI claims that Grok-0 equals Meta LLama 2's capabilities with just half the training resources.

The xAI team's advancements in reasoning and coding led to the creation of Grok-1, the advanced LLM that drives the Grok chatbot client. In its computing class, Grok surpasses other models like ChatGPT -3.5 and Inflection-1 in machine learning benchmarks and tasks. Future plans include making Grok available to all X Premium+ subscribers, although the timeline has not been disclosed.