Not bad so far. Better, faster search than ChatGPT, no baked in moralizing. Still tilting toward the corporate safetyism more than I'd like, but easily the best of frontier models on that feature.
It's a small-ish model, still feeling out the limits. It doesn't extrapolate from obvious assumptions the way bigger models do, so asking how a recent research paper might affect a field, or what the implications of a new technology might be, the model is too literal. It also stumbles around identifying implicit subjects in a conversation, I'm having to correct it and tell it explicitly what previously models would pick up without any trouble at all.
500B MoE, uses an agent team style approach, similar to what Manus did in the ancient times (03/25). Interesting model so far, gonna play with the video/image processing and poke around the edges. It's their "small" 500B MoE model.
I'm hoping Grok 5 ends up being a huge win for them, this year is exciting as hell.
The fact that this is getting so little attention confirms that HN has a highly biased user base. Think we need to create a new tech discussion forum that sticks to the technical merits rather than political biases.
Sam Altman was a YC President, right? And he is in a very public dispute with Musk, right? And Hacker News is a marketing tool for YC and its friends not a public service, right?
No surprises here. I hope xAI will succeed and provide stronger offerings for software engineering and Claude Code like product. It would be a shame if the only flavors of market leading AI are San Francisco and Hangzhou.
The thread is just a link to Grok. There's no information about the model or anything to discuss. If they release some information about it, maybe a benchmark or two, I'm sure there'll be more of a conversation.
It's a small-ish model, still feeling out the limits. It doesn't extrapolate from obvious assumptions the way bigger models do, so asking how a recent research paper might affect a field, or what the implications of a new technology might be, the model is too literal. It also stumbles around identifying implicit subjects in a conversation, I'm having to correct it and tell it explicitly what previously models would pick up without any trouble at all.
500B MoE, uses an agent team style approach, similar to what Manus did in the ancient times (03/25). Interesting model so far, gonna play with the video/image processing and poke around the edges. It's their "small" 500B MoE model.
I'm hoping Grok 5 ends up being a huge win for them, this year is exciting as hell.