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Upgraded Grok-1.5 Chatbot launches next week, Confirms Elon Musk

Elon Musk has confirmed the news of the launch of Grok 1.5 on his Twitter handle. It is an upgraded version of the chatbot which will be available to early testers and existing Grok users. Grok !.5 comes with improved reasoning and a context length of 128,000 tokens.

Elon Musk took to his X handle, formerly Twitter, to confirm the news of the launch of Grok 1.5 by next week. Grok 1.5 comes with the features of advanced reasoning and the capacity to understand long contexts. Elon Musk also said that Grok 2 is under training and might overtake existing AI.

The latest Grok 1.5 model will initially be available only to early testers and existing Grok users on platform X in the coming days. 

As per the official blog by xAI Grok 1.5, it showed remarkable results in coding and math-related tasks. It achieved a score of 50.6% on the Math benchmark and 90% on the GSM8K benchmark. 

These benchmarks cover a wide range of grade school to high school competition problems. Grok 1.5 additionally scored 74.1% on the benchmark of HumanEval. It evaluates code generation and problem-solving abilities.

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Grok 1.5 also has the feature of increased memory capacity, making it capable of processing long contexts of up to 128k tokens within its context window. 

This enables Grok to utilize information from substantially longer documents. Grok 1.5 showed perfect retrieval results in the Needle In A Haystack (NIAH) evaluation. 

It can also handle longer and more complex prompts, while still maintaining its instruction-following capability as its context window expands. 

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Earlier this month Elon Musk released the Grok model to open source community. Grok was open-sourced under Apache License 2.0, allowing commercial use, modifications, and distribution. 

However, it cannot be trademarked, and users do not receive liability or warranty. The code for Grok can be downloaded from its Github page or via a torrent link. 

Grok-1.5 is built on a custom distributed training framework based on JAX, Rust, and Kubernetes. This training stack enables to prototyping ideas and training new architectures at scale with minimal effort. 

Grok-1.5 will soon be available to early testers, and xAI looks forward to receiving customer feedback to help them improve Grok. 

As they plan to gradually roll out Grok-1.5 to a wider audience, they might introduce several new features over the coming days.

This post was last modified on March 30, 2024 10:15 pm

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