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Grok 1.5 Vision (in preview) performs comparably to GPT-4V, says xAI
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1. Grok 1.5 Vision (in preview) performs comparably to GPT-4V, says xAI
“Available soon to our early testers and existing Grok users.”
“In the coming months, we anticipate [making] significant improvements” in multimodal understanding and generation capabilities.
Our view: xAI is 6-12 months behind OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
But never bet against Elon.
2. GPT-4 Turbo's April update available on ChatGPT Plus, taking back #1 position on from Claude 3 Opus
API had been updated on Tue.
Statistically insignificant difference between them.
Could be a sign that LLM quality is plateauing with current technology.
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