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Elon's xAI dropped Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini last week. These new models are crushing it in chat, coding, and reasoning. They're even outperforming heavy hitters like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4-Turbo on the LMSYS leaderboard.

It's hitting 87.5% on MMLU, 76.1% on MATH, and a whopping 93.6% on DocVQA. For context, it's outperforming GPT-4 Turbo on GPQA (56.0% vs 48.0%) and matching top models on HumanEval with 88.4%. These aren't just incremental gains - we're seeing major leaps from Grok-1.5.

But with Elon there’s always more to the story. Grok-2 now generates images. They partnered with this brand-new startup, Black Forest Labs, using their FLUX.1 model. And boy, it's stirring up some drama.

Users are going wild, creating all sorts of crazy images. We're talking politicians in bizarre scenarios, copyrighted characters, you name it. Here are some of them:

It seems like there are zero guardrails. This is raising some serious eyebrows. With the U.S. elections coming up, folks are worried about misinformation. Plus, there's the whole copyright can of worms.

Right now, only X Premium users can access Grok-2. But xAI's planning to roll out an enterprise API soon. They're also looking to bake Grok into X's features like search and replies.

The big picture: Grok-2 is pushing the boundaries of what AI can do. But it's also shining a spotlight on the challenges we face with AI safety and ethics. This release could be a turning point in how we approach AI development moving forward.

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