Grok and xAI
- Q108 How did you rebuild xAI?
He said spending meaningful time at the company makes a big difference. xAI started as a side hustle to a side hustle and he did not pay close attention; then came a year of politics, elections, and DOGE.
- Q113 How capable is Grok 3?
At times Grok 3 is kind of scary smart: it comes up with solutions you would not even anticipate.
- Q72 When will Grok Bot get native Apple connectors? (asked on X)
Replying to a Grok Bot Apple-connectors workaround, he said a fix is coming within a few days.
- Q73 How capable is Grok Bot? (asked on X)
Announces Grok Bot now integrates with phone apps.
- Q80 Will Grok 5 have continuous learning? (asked on X)
Asked whether Grok 5 will have continuous learning, he said dynamic reinforcement learning is important and Grok 5, like smart humans, will learn almost immediately.
- Q81 What is xAI's MACROHARD project? (asked on X)
He said the project is about emulating entire human companies.
- Q83 When will Grok models be open-sourced? (asked on X)
He says closed AI will outperform open source by a meaningful margin at any point, since six months is an eternity.
- Q84 Why make a smaller coding-optimized model? (asked on X)
He said xAI expects Grok Code to be state of the art in two to three months.
- Q87 Will Grok get an Analyze button that verifies claims in posts? (asked on X)
He said you can usually press the xAI/Grok button and it will do essentially that, but maybe we add an explicit “Analyze” button, which, as a subset of analysis, also does verification of claims made in the post.
- Q89 Will Grok voice handle multiple speakers in a noisy car? (asked on X)
Asked CES report #22: Grok soon will have voice. But will it be this good, he said yeah, Grok will be better at understanding complex group speech in a noisy environment than people are
- Q95 How will AI overcome the data wall? (asked on X)
He says at a certain point AI runs out of human-created data.
- Q97 Will Grok auto-respond when mentioned in posts? (asked on X)
Asked Who are the top female CEOs by marketcap of their companies, he said good point. Grok autorespond bot incoming.