Elon Musk’s xAI announced the early preview of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, an upgraded version of its existing Grok-1.5 model. These new AI assistants come with advanced capabilities in both text and vision understanding, integrating real-time information from the X platform, accessible through the Grok tab in the X app.
The company is said to have evaluated the models in two key areas: following instructions and providing accurate, factual information. Grok-2 has shown significant improvements in reasoning with retrieved content and in its tool use capabilities, such as correctly identifying missing information, reasoning through sequences of events, and discarding irrelevant posts, said the company.
Grok-2, under the name “sus-column-r,” is now outperforming both Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4-Turbo at the LMSYS chatbot arena, a popular competitive language model benchmark. The new model excels in reasoning, reading comprehension, math, science, and coding, showing significant improvements over Grok-1.5.
With a redesigned interface and new features, X users can use Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini for seeking answers, understanding the context of memes, enhancing search capabilities, gaining deeper insights on X posts, and improving reply functions, as well as collaborating on writing or solving coding tasks.
The company is also experimenting with Black Forest Labs FLUX.1 model to expand Grok’s capabilities.
Availability
Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini are currently available in beta on X, and users are urged to update their X app to the latest version to experience it. The company is also making both models available through our enterprise API later this month.