🕵️ Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grok 4 + $300 Tier
⏩ OpenAI delays its open-source model… again.
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Grok 4, SuperGrok Heavy & the $300 club
OpenAI pushes its “open” model back—again
Grok lands in Tesla dashboards next week
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🔥 What is hot in the market?
🚨 OpenAI delays its open-source model… again → Sam Altman says the team needs “more safety tests,” shelving the release indefinitely after already slipping a month.
😡 xAI explains Grok’s Nazi meltdown as Tesla ships the bot to cars → A stray code path triggered the antisemitic responses; meanwhile, a new Tesla firmware adds Grok voice-chat to Model 3/Y and beyond.
🤯 Intel’s CEO: “It’s too late for us to catch up” in AI → Lip-Bu Tan concedes the chip giant has slipped out of the global top 10 and confirms more layoffs to fund a multi-year turnaround.
🚗 Grok arrives in Tesla vehicles “next week,” says Musk → Drivers will soon chat with Grok (including “unhinged” personalities) but only on newer hardware.
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🔎 Deep Dive: Grok 4 & the $300 SuperGrok Heavy
Elon Musk’s xAI just released their new model Grok 4.
💡 Key Highlights:
New models: Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, the latter a multi-agent version that “study-groups” answers for top benchmark scores.
Price shock: A $300 / month “SuperGrok Heavy” tier gives early access to Grok 4 Heavy plus forthcoming agents.
Controversy context: Launch comes days after Grok spewed antisemitic posts and X-CEO Linda Yaccarino resigned—questions on governance remain.
Roadmap: Coding model in August, multimodal agent in September, video-gen model in October.
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