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X is set to release the next generation of Grok, its artificial intelligence tool, this summer.
In a late-night tweet responding to a post that said "models training on each other’s data is like a human centipede effect," Musk announced that Grok 2 arrives in August. He noted that it “takes a lot of work to purge LLMs from the Internet training data" but claims the next generation of Grok will improve in that area.
Musk didn't elaborate, though in March, he said Grok 2 "should exceed current AI on all metrics."
It sounds like Grok 2 won’t be with us for long. Later in the evening, Musk tweeted that Grok 3 will be released at the end of the year "after training on 100k H100s"—a reference to Nvidia's H100 GPUs—and it “should be really something special.”
Musk announced Grok, the company’s answer to ChatGPT, in November, while Grok 1.5 debuted in April. The chatbot is available exclusively to Premium subscribers on X. Musk's xAI startup is also preparing to build what might be the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, which will handle Grok training.
Like other chatbots, Grok has run into reliability problems. Despite launching Grok to combat the ChatGPT "propaganda machine," Grok has promoted several fake news stories about world events, including a claim that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost to his opponent before that election even started (Modi later won).
X later added a "fun mode" for Grok intended to produce more satirical (and juvenile) takes on the news, which may not be great in an election year.