Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is about to spawn a new generation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to make Baby Grok, an app dedicated to kid-friendly content,\u201d the billionaire wrote in a post<\/a> on his X social media platform Saturday (July 19) night without offering further details.<\/p>\n Grok is the name of the AI model used by Musk\u2019s xAI<\/a> startup, introduced<\/a> in November 2023 and touted for its sarcastic sense of humor as well as its reasoning capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n Musk\u2019s comments about a kid-friendly version of the tool came a little more than a week after xAI debuted its newest version of Grok \u2014 Grok 4 \u2014\u00a0which the CEO called \u201cthe smartest AI in the world,\u201d adding that in \u201csome ways, it\u2019s terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n As PYMNTS reported, Musk likened Grok 4 to a \u201csuper-genius child\u201d in which the \u201cright values\u201d of truthfulness and a sense of honor must be instilled so society can benefit from its advances.\u00a0<\/p>\n Musk said Grok\u202f4 was built to perform at the \u201cpost-graduate level\u201d in many topics simultaneously, which no person can do. It can generate realistic visuals and tackle complex analytical tasks.<\/p>\n In addition, Musk said Grok 4 would score perfectly on SAT and graduate-level exams like GRE even without seeing the questions ahead of time.<\/p>\n Grok also encountered controversy this month when the chatbot praised Adolf Hitler in a conversation on X. xAI has since said it has taken action to ban hate speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n In other AI news, PYMNTS wrote recently about the recent wave of funding<\/a> for AI startups. For example, the AI search company Perplexity<\/a> saw its valuation reach $18 billion following its latest funding round of $100 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cCapital raised by Perplexity, which has tripled its valuation over the past year, point to robust investor interest in the competitive AI search market especially for leading startups,\u201d that report said. \u201cApple reportedly was interested in acquiring Perplexity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n An even bigger funding round last week involved Thinking Machines<\/a>, founded by former OpenAI<\/a> CTO Mira Murati<\/a>. That company achieved a $10 billion valuation<\/a> after raising $2 billion.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world \u2014 through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate,\u201d Murati said in a post on X.<\/p>\n Finally, reports emerged last week that Anthropic<\/a> had been approached by investors with funding offers that could value the startup at $100 billion<\/a>. The company\u2019s valuation hit $61.5 billion earlier this year after a $3.5 billion fundraise.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is about to spawn a new generation. \u201cWe\u2019re going to make Baby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,21808,181,507,21809,11,641,3,3300,74,3301,4119],"class_list":["post-24619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-chatbots","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-baby-grok","tag-elon-musk","tag-grok","tag-news","tag-pymnts-news","tag-technology","tag-whats-hot","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}