Grok, Elon Musk and deepfakes
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Over the July 4 holiday weekend, xAI updated its publicly available instructions for the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, telling the bot to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect." Afterward, Grok posted antisemitic comments ...
BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 24: In this photo illustration, the logo of Grok is displayed on a smartphone screen with the xAI logo in the background on August 24, 2025 in Beijing, China. Elon Musk's xAI has open-sourced its Grok 2.5 model and plans to do the ...
Grok 4 had lower lmarena scores than I had projected based upon the amount AI training compute used. I had projections for Grok 3.5 which was renamed Grok 4. We do not have elo lmarena score for Grok 4 heavy. My old projection had assumed what will now be ...
Grok 4 by xAI was released on July 9, and it's surged ahead of competitors like DeepSeek and Claude at LMArena, a leaderboard for ranking generative AI models. However, these types of AI rankings don't factor in potential safety risks. New AI models are ...
Cybercriminals ‘Grok’ Their Way Past X’s Defenses to Spread Malware Your email has been sent Threat actors have found a way to weaponize trust itself. By bending X’s AI assistant to their will, they’re turning a helpful tool into a malware ...
Theo-gg who has been critical of XAI in the past, confirms that XAi Grok 4 is the top model. However, Grok 4 is slow and is not the best at coding yet. It is also expensive because of the volume of tokens generated. Grok 4 excels in reasoning and knowledge ...
Backlash over offensive Grok outputs continues, just a couple weeks after the social platform X scrambled to stop its AI tool from dubbing itself “MechaHitler” during an antisemitic meltdown. Now, The Verge has found that the newest video feature of ...
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now After days of controversy surrounding a flurry of antisemitic responses made recently by his Grok ...
Grok 4 can analyze real-time X chatter, market data and onchain flows to highlight potential altcoin moves. Social surges, exchange listing rumors, whale transactions and leverage spikes are among the earliest indicators of a pump signal. Traders can use ...
On Wednesday night, Elon Musk unveiled xAI’s latest flagship models Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy via livestream, just one day after the company’s Grok chatbot began generating outputs that featured blatantly antisemitic tropes in responses to users on X.
With all the AI news coming out each week, some of the more significant advancements can be hard to track. Grok 4 Fast is streamlined version of xAI's flagship Grok 4 model released back in July 2025. The new version is designed to deliver near–frontier ...