xAI

xAI is an AI company working to accelerate scientific discovery and to help us better understand the universe. Its first product, Grok, is a conversational AI designed to answer a broad range of questions and to do so with humor and wit.

Grok is named after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and is designed to give useful answers and to suggest follow-up questions. It has real-time knowledge of the world through the 𝕏 platform, and it can answer questions that other AIs would reject. It's still in early beta, but it should improve rapidly with user feedback.

xAI also offers an integrated development environment (IDE) for prompt engineering and interpretability research called PromptIDE. It lets people employ complex prompting techniques and see the network's output, which can be useful for working with large language models.

Some of Grok's abilities include:

• Conversational AI: Ask questions and get answers, and follow up with follow-up questions.
• Real-time Knowledge: Get information from the world through the 𝕏 platform.
• Multimodal Capabilities: Grok-1.5V can process visual information, including documents, diagrams and photos.
• Long Context Understanding: Can process up to 128,000 tokens in its context window.
• Reasoning and Problem-Solving: Is good at coding and math challenges, as measured by benchmarks like MATH and GSM8K.

Grok is intended to be a research assistant for anyone, providing users with a way to quickly get information, process data and generate new ideas. Ultimately, AI tools should help us all better pursue understanding.

Pricing isn't disclosed, but you can sign up for early access to Grok and PromptIDE if you're interested. xAI is hiring, too, if you want to join the company's mission to advance AI research.

Published on June 9, 2024