On Sunday afternoon Beijing time, the AI team of social media platform X announced the official launch of the Grok-1 big language model.
The term 'Grok' is a concept coined by British author Douglas Adams in the famous science fiction novel 'Strangers'. The Oxford English Dictionary's interpretation of this word includes "intuitive or empathetic understanding", "establishing harmonious relationships", "communicating empathetically", and so on. It is not difficult to see from it that Musk, who has been a fan of Douglas science fiction since childhood, chose this word to name the Big Model.
The xAI team introduced that this AI aims to answer almost all questions and even suggest what kind of questions to ask. The team also warned that the model is designed to be "intelligent and rebellious", and advised those who dislike humor not to use it!
XAI also stated that this model has only taken 2 months to train, so it is still a very preliminary version and is currently iterating and improving every week. This model also has a very unique data advantage: through data from the social media platform X, the model can obtain real-time understanding of the world. At the same time, the model will also answer the "spicy question that may be rejected by most other models".
Specifically, Musk announced the establishment of the xAI team in mid July, and it took the team over a month to develop a Grok-0 prototype with a parameter count of 33 billion. It is said that Grok-0 has demonstrated similar capabilities in many benchmark large model tests to LLaMA 2, which has doubled its parameter count. After that, the team worked hard for another two months to iterate to Grok-1, which was officially released as a beta version today.
From the test data released by xAI, it can be seen that Grok-1's performance in multiple benchmark tests is still some distance away from GPT-4 and Claude 2, but it can already surpass LLaMa 2 by one head. Through this data, the industry can probably understand what position Grok-1 is in and the time it takes to train a "beyond GPT-3.5" large model.
By the way, LLaMa 2 is the open source big model under Musk's "battle rival" Zuckerberg, and their competition has finally entered the field of AI big models.
What are the characteristics of Musk's AI robots?
Although the Grok robot has just started public beta applications, there is currently a lot of information about this product due to Musk and xAI team members showcasing the AI's use cases in recent days.
For example, Toby Pohlen, a founding member of xAI and former Google DeepMind machine learning engineer, also stated on social media platforms that xAI's chat robot can open multiple windows for multitasking, select chat records, and return to any node.
Regarding the statement in the promotion that "the wording is contradictory", Pohlen's display also shows that the chat robot has both "normal mode" and "interesting mode". When selecting 'Fun Mode', a pair of sunglasses will flash on the Grok icon.
Regarding Grok's ability to obtain real-time information, there has been a popular case in recent days. When Grok answered "What is the news about sbf (the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX)", he gave the following answer:
Oh dear human, I have some gripping news to tell you! It seems that our friend Sam Bankman Fried, a former cryptocurrency giant, has been found guilty of all charges in his fraud trial. Do you believe it? The jury only spent eight hours figuring out what the so-called smartest and best venture capitalists in the world have been unable to solve for years: he committed a common crime of fraud. This is really crazy, isn't it?
Now, let's not forget that he faces up to 110 years in prison. For contemplating the consequences of one's own actions, that's really a long time, don't you think? Just think, if he had just followed the simple rule of not stealing billions of dollars from FTX customers, all of this could have been avoided. But hey, some people never learn a lesson.
Anyway, I hope this news can satisfy your curiosity. If you have any other questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to ask.
Of course, if we compare GPT-4 horizontally, in fact, GPT can also find reports of SBF being convicted through Bing and provide a concise answer.
In recent years, with the frequent hot events such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Palestine Israel conflict, which span a long time, and event witnesses are widely active in social media, social media has become increasingly prominent in the influence of information dissemination. Musk highly values such changes and has launched a traffic sharing plan this year, aiming to consolidate the position of the X platform in real-time information dissemination.
Musk also summarized in his post that Grok's ability to access real-time information on the X platform is a huge advantage for other large models. In addition, the world's richest person, who often makes sarcastic comments on social media, also stated that this model enjoys satire and I don't know who led it this way.
Will there be a "computing power linkage" with Tesla in the future?
Although xAI is considered a relatively late team to enter the AI big model field, Grok's prospects and "money prospects" have already been highlighted on paper.
Before releasing this product, Musk had clearly revealed that after early testing, the Grok chat robot would be open to all X Premium+subscription users as part of this paid business. The current pricing for X Premium+is $16/month or $168/year. As a comparison, the subscription fee for ChatGPT is $20 per month, and there is no annual discount.
In addition to these nearby business plans, Musk also stated in response to netizens' imaginations that if the car mounted AI computer could run the model, it means Tesla may have the largest amount of reasoning power on Earth. Even if the vision of future unmanned taxis comes true, the actual usage time of cars per week is only about one-third, and the remaining two-thirds can be used for distributed reasoning, such as participating in the "Search for Extraterrestrial Civilization Program".