Vinicius Barbosa
Advancements in the artificial intelligence (AI) realm are making huge waves in different markets and industries, bringing unstoppable innovation. In this scenario, companies have to adjust according to the fast-changing users’ behavior and expectations, facing the evolving technology.
For example, AI developments have now led to models like Elon Musk’s xAI’s Grok 2 beta, challenging Google’s search dominance.
This is because Grok 2 can now scan the entire web in real time to provide up-to-date results and analyses. Previously, Grok was already able to scan X social media posts, bringing experts’ insights on trending events.
Perplexity Online is another AI with similar capacities, mentioned in a select list of OpenAI’s most feared competitors. Perplexity, however, has limited analysis capacities, with Grok showing a better performance besides being able to use 𝕏.
X on Grok’s capacities to replace Google
Commentators on Musk’s platform weighed in on the AI unfolded capacities and recent developments.
“Grok just replaced Google,” claimed Preston Henshaw in a post on November 17. “Grok is now a search engine that can access the entire internet, and not just obtain information from 𝕏.”
Following Henshaw’s claims, Mario Nawfal put Grok 2 abilities to the test, asking both Grok and Google the same question. Nawfal explained how Elon Musk’s AI can provide a complete answer to questions that Google can only give links to.
“Now that Grok can access real-time information through web searches, it can answer questions Google only gives you links to. For example, asking Google how to cancel Amazon Prime yields links to Amazon, whereas Grok gives you step-by-step instructions along with links to walk you through the process.”
– Mario Nawfal
What’s next for xAI’s Grok?
Like its competitors, xAI, the X Corp subsidiary behind Grok’s development, continues looking for improvements to its artificial intelligence model.
Interestingly, Hieu Pham, a member of xAI’s technical staff and former Google Brain research scientist, made a groundbreaking revelation on 𝕏 about what is next for Grok 3.
In a post, Pham claimed Grok 3 was able to prove Riemann’s hypothesis, solving one of the world’s most complex unsolved mathematical problems. The xAI’s developer said the company has temporarily paused Grok’s training to check if the proof is correct.
“Grok-3 just proved Riemann’s hypothesis. We decided to pause its training to check its proof, and if the proof is correct, training won’t be resumed, as the AI is deemed so smart that it becomes a danger to humanity,” Hieu Pham said
Nevertheless, the community notes and commentators have, understandably, shown skepticism to such a bold claim, calling it “sarcasm” and “bait.”
As things develop, the market closely watches Grok, Google, and other leading names in information and AI. The technology is leaving its mark in different markets and industries, including stocks and cryptocurrencies. Yet, experts believe we are just starting.
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