By
Mayowa Adebajo
July 2nd, 2024
Grok 2 may have taken inspiration from iconic AI characters such as JARVIS from Iron Man and the guide from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Elon Musk has revealed the release date for xAI’s next-generation AI assistant Grok 2. According to the tech entrepreneur, the product, which seeks to build on the success of Grok 1.5, promises improved features. That is especially true in the area of real-time knowledge processing and reasoning capabilities. xAI launched Grok last November to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.
Per Musk, xAI will launch Grok 2 in August. However, he also revealed that there are further plans to release Grok 3 by the end of the year.
Sadly quite true. It takes a lot of work to purge LLMs from the Internet training data. Grok 2, which comes out in August, will be a giant improvement in this regard.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2024
xAI’s Grok 2 Inspired by Sci-Fi, Powered by Advanced Tech
Interestingly, Grok 2 may have taken inspiration from iconic AI characters such as JARVIS from Iron Man and the guide from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It aims to have the capacity to answer virtually any user query.
This ambitious goal is fueled by xAI’s focus on “purging” large language model datasets used for training. Musk has previously hinted at concerns regarding the quality of data used by competitors like OpenAI. Elon Musk will attempt to address this issue with Grok 2 by offering a more refined training foundation for its AI engine.
Grok 2 boasts improved performance over established standards such as MATH and HumanEval. This suggests that it is coming with a significant advantage in both factual accuracy and user interaction experience. With a laser focus on user experience, xAI has ensured the integration of real-time web search capabilities and image generation functionalities into Grok.
Future Plans
While Grok 2 arrives in August, Musk has shared another teaser that an even more powerful Grok 3 is also around the corner. Scheduled for release by the end of the year, Grok 3 will reportedly leverage the processing power of 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, potentially pushing the boundaries of AI performance even further. Strengthening this ambitious project is a recent collaboration between Dell Technologies and Nvidia.
As Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell confirmed, the partners are looking to create a specialized AI factory. Dell also confirmed that the factory is more than willing to back Musk and xAI in their efforts to develop Grok.
Expectations are high for Grok 2’s arrival in August as it is poised to mark a significant advancement in the area of AI assistants. By focusing on data quality, user experience, and much-improved processing power, Grok 2 may just redefine how we interact with AI in the future.