Grok to Conquer the World (or at least Physics)

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It’s all happening, old chap! The xAI team has spilled the beans on their latest plans for Grok 4, and Elon Musk is making bold predictions about artificial intelligence that are simply too thrilling to ignore 🤖.

During a ripping good livestream on X, the xAI team revealed that the first public release of Grok 4 is based on their sixth foundation model. But wait, t robots making tea, robots playing cricket, robots taking over the world… 🤖

Musk, who also leads electric vehicle and robotics company Tesla, added that Grok will be integrated into Tesla cars “next week at the latest.” This, he said, would allow Grok to test whether its theories are valid in the real world, an approach that suggests the chatbot may evolve beyond text-based output and into scientific experimentation. Spiffing! 🔬

New Physics, Old Chap!

Musk said that he expects Grok to “discover new technologies that are actually useful no later than next year and maybe by the end of this year.” He added:

“It might discover new physics next year. And within two years, I’d say almost certainly.”

Musk is no stranger to making grandiose statements concerning AI. Last month, he said xAI will retrain Grok on a new knowledge base free of “garbage” and “uncorrected data” — even suggesting the AI would rewrite history in the process. One wonders if they’ll include the bit about the robots taking over the world 🤖.

During the livestream, Musk also said that AI will lead to “an economy that is thousands of times bigger than our current economy, or maybe millions of times.” He went as far as to reference the Kardashev civilization classification scale:

“[With AI] we will get to most of the way, like 80%, 90% of Kardashev 1, and then hopefully, if civilization doesn’t self-annihilate, and then Kardashev 2.”

The Kardashev scale measures a civilization’s advancement based on its energy use, proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964. Type one uses all the energy from its planet, Type two captures energy from its star, and Type three harnesses energy from its entire galaxy. One assumes Type four is where the robots take over the universe 🚀.

Programming AI and New Capital

The xAI team also hinted at an upcoming programming AI model that was already trained. The new model is purportedly “both fast and smart” and expected to be released in a few weeks. One can only imagine the possibilities: AI writing its own code, AI making its own tea, AI taking over… oh wait, we’ve already covered that 🤖.

The news follows xAI securing $10 billion in fresh capital earlier this month, as it doubles down on its challenge to OpenAI, intensifying the race to dominate the AI landscape. In late May, the firm also “agreed in principle” to integrate its AI chatbot Grok across Telegram in a $300 million deal. It’s all getting rather exciting, old chap! 🎉

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2025-07-10 14:12