Elon Musk\u2019s AI company, xAI, has unveiled Grok 4, its latest and most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model yet, claiming it now leads the field in academic, reasoning, and coding capabilities.<\/p>\n
Musk didn\u2019t hold back, calling it the \u201csmartest AI in the world\u201d during a livestream on X (formerly Twitter) late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
In addition to Grok 4, xAI rolled out Grok 4 Heavy, a more advanced variant that uses multiple AI agents collaborating like a virtual \u201cstudy group\u201d to solve complex tasks. The release also comes with a new top-tier subscription plan: SuperGrok Heavy, which offers access to this powerful model for $300 a month.<\/p>\n
Benchmark Battles: Grok vs. the Competitors<\/strong><\/p>\n According to xAI, both Grok 4 and its enhanced counterpart, Grok 4 Heavy, have outperformed major rivals like Google\u2019s Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI\u2019s o3-high across a variety of leading AI performance benchmarks:<\/p>\n \u201cGrok 4\u00a0is the first time, in my experience, that an AI has been able to solve difficult, real-world engineering questions where the answers cannot be found anywhere on the Internet or in books. And it will get much better,\u201d Musk posted on X.<\/p>\n In the STEM and coding domain, the model appears even stronger:<\/p>\n While comparing\u00a0PhDs to Grok 4, Musk said that \u201cGrok 4 is postgraduate, like PhD level, in everything. Better than PhD \u2014 no exceptions. Most PhDs would fail where Grok 4 would pass.\u201d<\/p>\n Although he admitted that it still struggles with common sense and hasn\u2019t invented new technologies or discovered new physics \u2013 \u201cyet\u201d but that is just a matter of time.<\/p>\n New Pricing<\/strong><\/p>\n The Grok 4 API pricing will be the same as its predecessor \u2014 $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens\u00a0($0.75 per 1M cached input tokens).<\/p>\n However, the bigger surprise lies in xAI\u2019s updated subscription line-up:<\/p>\n Grok 4 To Compete with GPT-5?<\/strong><\/p>\n xAI\u2019s push to dominate the AI space comes just ahead of OpenAI\u2019s expected GPT-5 launch later this summer. While Grok 4\u2019s strong performance is hard to ignore, the question remains: whether businesses and customers will overlook recent controversies and choose Musk\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elon Musk\u2019s AI company, xAI, has unveiled Grok 4, its latest and most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model yet, claiming it now leads the field in academic, reasoning, and coding capabilities. Musk didn\u2019t hold back, calling it the \u201csmartest AI in the world\u201d during a livestream on X (formerly Twitter) late Wednesday night. In addition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":127371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1989,3141],"tags":[4912,1810,1329,64211,64215,64210,64214,64213,62174,62122],"class_list":{"0":"post-127360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"category-news","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-gemini-2-5-pro","13":"tag-gpt-5","14":"tag-grok-4-heavy","15":"tag-supergrok-heavy","16":"tag-supergrok-plan","17":"tag-x","18":"tag-xai"},"yoast_head":"\n\n
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