Nearly two weeks after the launch of Elon Musk's xAI open AI model behind Grok for the public, its AI chatbot is set to get an upgrade.

company announced Grok-1.5 on Thursday and claimed that its latest model can understand longer documents, handle more complex queries and perform more advanced reasoning.

While Grok-1.5 appears to be a step up from the original 1.0 version with improvements in coding and math capabilities, its announcement post shows that it still lags behind Google's Gemini Pro 1.5 AI, OpenAI's GPT-4, and Claude 3 Opus of Anthropic in several landmarks. tests, outperforming OpenAI in a key HumanEval test.

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Grok-1.5 scored more than GPT-4 in HumanEval benchmark, which consists of 164 challenging programming problems that are not included in the AI ​​model training data. The GPT-4 had a score of 67% and the Gemini Pro 1.5 scored 71.9%, while the Grok-1.5 got 74.1%.

^{Elon Musk's company xAI is set to release a new version of the Grok AI chatbot, a competitor to ChatGPT. Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images.}

With a result of 81.3% in MMLU test, which covers knowledge of 57 subjects from elementary to advanced level, Grok-1.5 performed close to Google Gemini's score (83.7%).

It also scored close to the GPT-4 score of 52.9% with a score of 50.6% in Mathematics test, a benchmark that covers math competition problems from middle school to high school.

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Musk announced on Friday post on social networks that Grok 1.5 should be available on X, formerly Twitter, within the next week.

Owner X has high expectations for the next-generation Grok, writing that the next step after the Grok-1.5 will be better than the currently available AI “in all metrics.” Grok 2 is “in training now”, he wrote in the post.

Grok AI is currently only available those with a $16 per month or higher Premium+ subscription on X.

Musk ignorant OpenAI, a competitor of xAI, earlier this month and sought a court order that would force OpenAI to make public the research and technology behind the AI.