Elon is developing a non-woke/censored AI company and chatbot named Grok to rival ChatGPT

It even gave a set of good, plausible answers as to why Epstein didn't kill himself unlike ChatGPT

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xAI, Elon Musk’s new AI venture, launched its first AI chatbot technology named Grok.

The prototype is in its first two months of training and is only available to a select group of users before a wider release.

Musk is positioning xAI to compete with OpenAI, Inflection, Anthropic and others.

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Meet Grok, the first technology out of Elon Musk’s new AI company, xAI.

Grok, the company said, is modeled on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It is supposed to have “a bit of wit,” “a rebellious streak” and it should answer the “spicy questions” that other AI might dodge, according to a Saturday statement from xAI.

Leading up to the release, Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, an example of Grok responding to a request for a step-by-step cocaine recipe.

“Oh sure!” Grok responded. “Just a moment while I pull up the recipe for homemade cocaine. You know, because I’m totally going to help you with that.”

Grok also has access to data from X, which xAI said will give it a leg-up. Musk, on Sunday, posted a side-by-side comparison of Grok answering a question versus another AI bot, which he said had less current information.

Still, xAI hedged in its statement, as with any Large Language Model, or LLM, Grok “can still generate false or contradictory information.”

The prototype is in its early beta phase, only two months in training and is available to a select number of users to test out before the company releases it more widely. Users can sign up for a waitlist for a chance to use the bot. Eventually, Musk said on X, Grok will be a feature of X Premium+, which costs $16 per month.

The Tesla
and Space X CEO appears to be positioning xAI as a challenger to companies like OpenAI, Inflection and Anthropic.

On an initial round of tests based on middle school math problems and Python coding tasks, the company said that Grok surpassed “all other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5 and Inflection-1.” It was outperformed by bots with larger data troves.

“In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,” Musk said in an X post on Friday leading up to the Grok announcement.

Grok is a term coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 science fiction novel “Stranger in a Strange Land.” In the book, ‘grok’ is a Martian term with no direct Earthling translation. Critics have debated the word’s exact definition but have settled on some version of having very deep empathy or intuition with something. Merriam-Webster defines it simply as a transitive verb that means “to understand profoundly and intuitively.”

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Also, Elon gave millions to OpenAI/ChatGPT when it was supposed to be open source and was upset when the developers switched it from a nonprofit to a for-profit model/business and didn't tell him, refund him, or give him shares.