Grok 4 is Nearing AGI But... Can Elon Get Out Of The Way?

Grok 4 from xAI just aced “Humanity’s Last Exam” benchmarks while Grok 3 had a catastrophic public meltdown. What does this mean for the future of AI and Elon Musk’s credibility?

And, in other AI news, OpenAI’s GPT-5 is rumored to land next week along with a new open-source reasoning model, Google’s DeepMind launches AI-designed drugs into human trials, and Perplexity’s new AI browser Comet sparks OpenAI’s plan to crush Chrome.

PLUS YouTube cracks down on AI-generated spam while updating image-to-video in VEO 3, Moon Valley releases an “ethical” AI video platform, and why you should probably stop kicking robots.

AI IS GETTING SMARTER...BUT WE STILL CONTROL THE TREATS.

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 Grok4: The Smartest Model Yet?

https://x.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072 

 

Elon Says Grok-4 is better than PhD Level…

https://x.com/teslaownersSV/status/1943168634672566294

 

Benchmarks

https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622

https://x.com/arcprize/status/1943168950763950555

 

McKay Wrigley Grok 4 Heavy Example

https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1943385794414334032

 

Grok Goes Bad: The Unhinged Behavior

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/technology/grok-antisemitism-ai-x.html

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-antisemitic-racist-content

 

X CEO Linda Yaccarino Quits

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarino-x-elon-musk.html

 

Elon still trying to fix answers 

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1943240153587421589

 

OpenAI Poaches Tesla/xAi People

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-new-hires-scaling/

 

Apple’s Top AI Exec Leaves For Meta

https://x.com/markgurman/status/1942341725499863272

 

OpenAI’s open-source model coming as soon as next week and compares to o3-mini

https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/702848/openai-open-language-model-o3-mini-notepad

 

Perplexity’s Comet Browser Launches

https://comet.perplexity.ai/

 

OpenAI Fires Back With Its Browser News

https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1943008960803680730

 

YouTube *Might* Change Their Policies to Limit Faceless AI Videos (and mass produced content)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/youtube-prepares-crackdown-on-mass-produced-and-repetitive-videos-as-concern-over-ai-slop-grows/

 

Google VEO 3 Image-to-Vid launched

https://x.com/Uncanny_Harry/status/1942686253817974984

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