Elon Musk’s Xai has officially launched the Grok 4, the latest iteration of artificial intelligence models. This release arrives as many public controversies have rocked the mask company.
After biting many nails, the livestream began an hour behind the original schedule on Wednesday night. The release of the new model was led by Musk, who opened the show with comments on how work with AI has progressed so far.
“It’s a bit scary in some ways, but the growth of intelligence here is amazing,” Musk munches in the livestream. “It’s only going to get better from here.”
Between the scale debate and the economic impact of AI, MUSK expressed his opinion on the pursuit of the wider AI sector of what is called frontier intelligence.
“It’s a bit unsettling to have created intelligence that is slightly greater than we ourselves,” Musk said. Given the pace, it can be difficult to keep up. “At least I want to live to see it happen.”
In one particular demo, Grok was asked to sing in audio mode. Instead, the response was to recite poetic lines to soften the user.
Posed as Openai’s highly anticipated direct competitor of GPT-5, Grok 4 promises important advancements in multimodal capabilities, becoming “the first principle of reason” and understands and generates more subtle and complex responses in text, images and audio formats.
In addition, one demo introduced the features of the foundation model to help you understand video games. This has the ability to determine if the game is fun.
Another demo of Grok 4 LiveStream used X’s social media posts and BET’s live data analytics to showcase the integration of the model with Polymarket, an Ethereum-based prediction platform.
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Musk places Grok as a bold alternative to repeatedly established players, highlighting increased transparency and reduced content restrictions.
Still, the road to Grok 4 is not smooth. Just this week, Grok attracted widespread criticism for producing inappropriate content, particularly the offensive persona called “Mechahitler.”
Imaginary persona is careless Inspired meme coin It quickly surges and then crashes, showing the actual results of unconfirmed AI output.
The controversy surrounding Groke has escalated further Resignation of Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X. Grok problematic output. Yaccarino’s departure is tied to wider concerns about the surveillance and ethical framework of Xai and its associated entities.
“Mecha Hitler” within one day of the catastrophe, a Line of code has been deleted In the model’s codebase, quietly Correction Politically charged product.
Despite these set-offs, Musk and Zai’s team continue to move forward.
In the Wednesday Night Livestream launch, Xai introduced a new subscription tier called SuperGrok Heavy for a price of $300.
This new layer provides early access to SuperGrok Heavy, a high-performance version featuring advanced inference, coding tools, priority support, and increased usage restrictions.
It also includes features from Grok 4, such as Deepsearch and Grok Studio, as well as potential “Big Brain” modes designed for developers, researchers and businesses.
In particular, Xai has not checked whether full API access for GROK 4 is available. However, partial endpoints such as “GROK-4-0629” and “Grok-4-Code-0629” are already live and are expected to have wider availability.