xAI: News

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI has unveiled a new AI model dubbed Grok 1.5 Vision. This large language model (LLM) is an enhanced version of the recently released Grok 1.5 model. With this upgrade, the AI model is now equipped with computer vision, making it capable of accepting visual media as input. It can process images and answer questions about it. Notably, the announcement came just days after OpenAI introduced its own computer vision-powered GPT-4 model. The firm shared a blog post detailing the new AI model and shared some of its benchmark scores. Since the vision capabilities were added to the recently unveiled Grok 1.5 model, most of the details remain the same. It has the same context window of 1,28,000 tokens and the general benchmark scores are also likely to remain the same. xAI also shared benchmark scores of Grok 1.5 Vision tested on a benchmark developed by the company. The AI firm calls it the RealWorldQA benchmark, and it measures “real-world spatial understanding”. It also tested the model in several other benchmarks such as MMMU, Mathvista, ChartQA, and more. While Grok outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision and Gemini 1.5 Pro in RealWorldQA, it scored less in MMMU and ChartQA.