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I'm your host, Will Walden. Elon Musk's AI company Xai is
working to add multimodal inputs to its Grok chat bot.
Soon, users may be able to upload images to Grok and
receive text based responses. According to public developer
documents, this update is part of XA is ongoing efforts to
enhance Grok's functionalities. Last month, Xai hinted at these
developments in a blog post, stating that Grok 1.5 V would
offer multimodal models and a number of domains.
Latest updates in the developer documents indicate significant
progress towards launching this new feature.
Now, a sample Python script included in the developer
documents shows how developers can use the Xai Software
Development Kit or the SDK to generate responses based on both
text and images, and the script demonstrates reading an image
file, setting up a text prompt, and using the XAISDK to generate
a relevant response. This is the major enhancement
for Grok, which was first released in November of 2023.
Initially available to just X Premium Plus subscribers on X
and Grok received its last update in March with version
1.5, which improved its reasoning capabilities.
Now the training data for the model includes a variety of text
from publicly available Internet sources up to the third quarter
of 2023, along with data sets reviewed and curated by human
reviewers, notably Grok One was not trained on data from X,
formerly Twitter, though it has real time knowledge of the world
including public posts on X now now founded by Elon Musk in
March 2023, XAI is relatively new in the AI sector but aims to
close the gap with competitors like Open AIS, ChatGPT and
according to XA is blog post. Grok 1.5 is nearing GPT force
performance on various benchmarks, although benchmarks
are often critiqued for their susceptibility to being
memorized by these models. Now, the AI industry sees
multimodal conversational chat box is kind of the next step
with advancements from companies like Google and Open AI.
And until now, Grok's lack of multimodal capabilities placed
it well behind the competitors, but this new development aims to
bring them closer. Recently, Xai announced that
Grok's AI Search Assistant feature is being rolled out to X
Premium subscribers in Europe. Move aligns with the broader
trend of expanding AI functionalities to enhance user
experiences all over the world. And in a significant
announcement, Elon Musk unveiled key new updates for Grok.
These updates have generated considerable attention, and this
shows that Elon Musk and Grok are both evolving.
Grok has gained traction as a potential competitor to open
AI's offerings. A recent European launch limited
to Premium and Premium Plus subscribers shows that they're
trying to get into a new set of users.
A post from X Engineering along with comments from Musk detailed
several updates to Grok, and one of them is notable.
It's the ability for users to access their chat history on web
and iOS platforms, enhancing the usability and convenience of the
chat bot, something that ChatGPT has had for a very long time
now. Musk also teased the
introduction of a Quote Fun mode for Grok, which would provide a
humorous take on news. This update is part of Musk's
broader effort to refine AI technology for improved user
engagement and experience. Now this treads into some dark
waters. What kind of humor is this
using? And also, do you really want
your news to be funny? That's up to you as a user.
And now Fun Mode makes that available to you.
And amid the developments around Grok, the AI landscape continues
to be dynamic, especially with opening AI's recent partnership
with Reddit. This collaboration, led by Sam
Altman, has sparked optimism about his potential impacts on
the technology industry. Now think about this Open AI
with Reddit. Reddit has so many posts,
hundreds of thousands, millions of posts from multi millions of
users. So if you could drill into that
information and use that for your language model, you've got
a whole new bag of worms to use. However, Musk has downplayed
this, highlighting instead Grok's collaboration as a joke
with 4 Chan. This platform is known for its
diverse content and active community engagement.
It's also known as the cesspool of the Internet.
No offense fortune, you know who you are.
And despite Open AI strong position in the AI sector,
there's a belief amongst some users that Grok will present
significant competition. Innovations continue to reshape
Grok. Stakeholders are watching this,
and Open AI is watching Grok and as they continue to enhance it.
The addition of multimodal capabilities could set a new
standard for Grok, but it's still going to be behind
ChatGPT, and Google's chat bots. This feature would allow users
to interact with the AI in more diverse and flexible ways,
potentially increasing its utility and appeal to more
users. Now the process of Grok's
multimodal inputs is an important development for XAI.
This enhancement along with other ones positions Grok is a
more competitive player in the AI field, promising A richer
user experience, and they're playing catch up to the whole
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