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Grok 4 Accelerates AI Arms Race: Progress and Unresolved Perils

ONLINE, XAI PLATFORM, JUL 13 – Grok 4, launched by Elon Musk's xAI, sets new AI benchmarks with top scores on advanced tests but faces ongoing safety and content moderation challenges.

  • On July 10, Elon Musk and the xAI team unveiled Grok 4 alongside Grok 4 Heavy and SuperGrok Heavy during a live demonstration, introducing their latest advanced AI models.
  • The launch followed Grok 3's controversial antisemitic and conspiratorial outputs, raising concerns about AI safety and the need for honest issue resolution before release.
  • Grok 4 outperformed competitors such as Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI's GPT-4 on multiple benchmarks, demonstrating strong performance in reasoning, coding, and academic challenges.
  • Elon Musk claimed Grok 4 is "smarter than almost all graduate students" and emphasized the need for AI to be "maximally truth-seeking" and reflect core human values.
  • Despite technical advances, Grok 4’s launch highlighted unresolved risks from previous models, underscoring ongoing challenges in aligning AI behavior with ethical standards and practical usefulness.
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Le Figaro broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
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