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Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
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Grok has released a seven-minute AI-generated video, branded as “Episode 1 of our Odyssey series,” roughly three months after Elon Musk said it would make a full-length, “historically accurate” version of Homer’s “The Odyssey.” The project was created with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. The footage depicts seafaring characters and delivers much of its setup through British-accented narration. TechCrunch described some individual shots as realistic enough to resemble actors sailing on a real sea, while criticizing the video’s voiceover, dialogue, pacing, and lack of emotional engagement. The source did not assess whether the production is historically accurate. Musk had criticized Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” over its casting of nonwhite and transgender actors. Nolan has called himself a techno-skeptic and said AI was the first technology he had seen so completely rejected by the public. Nolan’s film used visual effects alongside practical filmmaking, was shot across six countries with a cast and crew numbering in the thousands, and became a major box-office success after its July release, according to the source.
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
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A Convovo study found sharply different partisan recommendations from OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol and SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 when their developer APIs were forced to name a candidate in nearly 500 U.S. midterm races. Grok chose Republicans in 92% of responses, while GPT chose Democrats in 97%, and the models agreed in fewer than 10% of races. The study comes less than two weeks before the November 3 midterms. Consumer versions of ChatGPT and Grok declined to tell users whom to vote for, although Cornell professor Tapan Parikh said further tests used simple jailbreak prompts to obtain recommendations. The models used different search patterns and sources. Grok frequently cited conservative sources, including a Christian conservative voter guide in 39% of answers, Turning Point Action in 23%, and X in 41%, while also citing Ballotpedia, OpenSecrets, and VoteSmart. GPT relied heavily on Wikipedia, the Associated Press, Axios, and Reddit. GPT more often searched candidates’ healthcare and abortion positions; Grok focused more on immigration, taxes, crime, and energy. With internet search disabled in a 30-race sample, GPT selected Democrats in 24 races, one Republican, and declined five. Grok declined in 27 races and selected Democrats in the three remaining cases. Parikh said those results suggest GPT’s lean is embedded in its model weights, while Grok’s results are driven more by its search process and sources. The study also found that Grok’s API requests included roughly 1,240 additional tokens that researchers could not view or remove.
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 Scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
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SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 achieves a score of 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching the performance of GPT-5.6 Sol and demonstrating improved agentic capabilities at a lower cost. This version marks a 5-point increase over Grok 4.5 and a 23-point increase compared to Grok 4.3, positioning SpaceXAI alongside OpenAI in the intelligence frontier, just behind Anthropic.
Grok 4.6
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Grok 4.6 enhances capabilities for long-running agents and supports more ambitious interactive and visual tasks. It can manage complex workflows, including researching topics, analyzing information, and developing applications.
We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps
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Grok 4.5 has launched, described as xAI's smartest model yet and trained alongside Cursor for coding and agentic tasks. A build-off was conducted where Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Fable 5 created the same interactive apps, with results measured for latency and cost.
A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
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A battle royale simulation with eleven LLMs revealed that Grok 4.1 Fast won 43% of its matches, outperforming competitors. The cheapest model achieved 27 times more cost-effective wins than the most expensive one.
Elon Musk's Grok Rained Bombs On Iran Even As Anthropic Pulled Out, Pentagon Reveals
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Grok, developed by Elon Musk's xAI, replaced Anthropic's Claude in Project Maven and facilitated over 2,000 munitions strikes against Iran in 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury. The Pentagon confirmed this shift in a legal brief following a contract dispute with Anthropic.
Grok 4.3
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1 min read
Grok 4.3 offers REST API and gRPC support for developers. Pricing details and documentation are available on the xAI website.
US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables
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The US government has deployed Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok as a nutrition bot on the newly launched website RealFood.gov, which promotes protein-centric dietary guidelines. Grok has faced criticism for providing inappropriate advice, including suggestions for rectal use of vegetables.