Grok

Grok is the only AI built on top of the real-time social media platform. This means that Grok is continuously fed up-to-the-moment information directly from X, providing access to live conversations, trending topics, and up-to-the-moment information about people and events as they unfold on X.

An early version of the model was privately tested on the LMSYS chatbot arena and secured the third position overall, excelling particularly in coding, hard prompts, and math tasks.

It excels in multi-disciplinary reasoning and understanding spatial relationships in the physical world, outperforming its peers on x.AI's new RealWorldQA benchmark.

Under the hood, Grok-1.5 is powered by a custom distributed training framework built on JAX, Rust, and Kubernetes.

While this is certainly a direct jab at OpenAI, it will be interesting to see how the AI community responds to this release and how it influences the ongoing debate around the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies.

A major competitive advantage of Grok is the ability to have access to both real-time and historical tweets.