Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini AI models launched in beta are expected to outperform GPT-4 Turbo

The Grok-2 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models has finally been released in beta by xAI. Elon Musk’s AI company launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini on Tuesday and announced new capabilities and improvements to its large language models (LLMs). Both models are available to Premium and Premium+ X (formerly known as Twitter) users. Interestingly, the Grok-2 models have image generation capabilities, but they are powered by an external AI model. The company claims that Grok-2 was able to outperform GPT-4 Turbo in benchmarks.

Grok-2 AI models released in beta

In a blog post, xAI announced the launch of two new Grok AI models, saying: “We are excited to release an early preview of Grok-2, a significant step forward from our previous Grok-1.5 model, offering pioneering chat, coding, and reasoning capabilities. At the same time, we are introducing Grok-2 mini, a small but capable sibling to Grok-2.”

New Grok AI chatbot interface
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Grok-2 is a state-of-the-art (SOTA) AI model, while Grok-2 Mini is a smaller language model spun off of Grok-2 that can generate responses faster and more accurately. Both models are available in the Grok chatbot for X Premium and X Premium+ users. Users will need to update to the latest version of the app to access the new AI models.

The company says an early version of Grok was tested in the Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS) ranking under the name “sus-column-r” and performed better than Claude 2.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo.

The official X handle LMSYS also confirmed this and emphasized that Grok-2 showed high performance in coding and mathematics, where it took second place, and in hard prompts, where it took fourth place. Currently, no other technical information is known about the AI ​​models, database, or architecture.

Alongside this, xAI revealed that the company has redesigned the Grok AI interface and added new features. One of them is image generation. However, this feature is outsourced to the Flux.1 model, which was created by Black Forest Labs. A report by TechCrunch claims that the image generation model has no security barriers and is capable of generating images of politicians.