AI, Grok and Elon Musk
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As Grok fired off replies on X praising Hitler, the chatbot's parent company also recently got permission to emit 97 tons of carbon monoxide per year to keep it running.
According to xAI's data, Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy essentially beat all other models, including OpenAI's o3, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Claude 4 Opus in various common AI benchmarks, though as one Redditor noticed, the competitors have been chosen selectively, likely to make Grok look better.
As xAI builds a vision-enhanced successor to Grok 4, Elon Musk suggested the AI may soon be capable of discovering new physics.
The four recent hires will be part of OpenAI’s scaling team, which is reportedly responsible for managing the backend AI infrastructure.
Grok 4 AI model launches with major upgrades; Elon Musk predicts it could invent new technologies and discover physics by 2026.
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The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.
Greater Memphis Chamber on xAi 15 gas turbines approval
Elon Musk's plans to ship an overseas power plant to Memphis for an xAI supercomputer raise both interest and environmental concerns.
The ordinance, proposed by Mayor Paul Young, aims to allocate tax revenue from Elon Musk's xAI to zip codes within a five-mile radius of the facilities. The funds, estimated to reach $100 million, will be used for public projects, programs, grants ...