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Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved with haste to get engineers to test and deploy DeepSeek’s R1 model on Azure AI Foundry. It was an unusually quick turnaround for a new model on Azure that also set a new bar for success. A few months later, Nadella then pushed to onboard xAI’s Grok…
Grok Imagine’s ‘Spicy’ mode lacks basic guardrails for sexual deepfakes
Updated on Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 11:00 a.m. ET — Other outlets have also reported that Grok Imagine will readily produce sexual deepfakes. The Verge reported on Tuesday that the Grok Imagine “Spicy” setting produced nude deepfakes of Taylor Swift, unprompted. This isn’t Elon Musk or X’s first controversy involving Taylor Swift deepfakes; in January 2024,…
Elon Musk says xAI is targeting 50 million ‘H100 equivalent’ AI GPUs in five years — 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s already reportedly operational for training Grok
Leading AI companies have been bragging about the number of GPUs they use or plan to use in the future. Just yesterday, OpenAI announced plans to build infrastructure to power two million GPUs, but now Elon Musk has revealed even more colossal plans: the equivalent of 50 million H100 GPUs to be deployed for AI…
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla enters its Grok era, and teens come for robotaxis | TechCrunch
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! In case you missed my announcement last week, TechCrunch Mobility is moving to the Beehiiv publishing platform. The launch is scheduled for July 18. Beehiiv provides lots of…
Elon Musk’s Grok AI is spamming X users about South African race relations now, for some reason
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has sought to compete with category leaders like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic for individual consumers and app developers as customers, but a new development with its signature chatbot assistant Grok…
The xAI–X merger is a good deal — if you’re betting on Musk’s empire | TechCrunch
When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), in an all-stock deal, it raised some eyebrows. But in many ways, the deal made sense. xAI’s chatbot, Grok, was already deeply integrated with X, X was floundering financially, and Musk needed a way to…