Comment by lexandstuff
4 days ago
Out of interest, has anyone ever integrated with Grok? I've done so many LLM integrations in the last few years, but never heard of anyone choosing Grok. I feel like they are going to need an unmistakably capable model before anyone would want to risk it - they don't behave like a serious company.
Grok 3 is on Azure AI Foundary [0] and announced an integration with Telegram, albeit they are paying Telegram $300m not vice versa [1]. But I agree, choosing Grok is just a huge reputational liability for anyone’s work that is serious.
[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/announcing-grok-3-and... [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxvr3n7wlxo
Any plans for GCP Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock? Apparently Grok 3 had the highest score for Golang on roocode.com/evals so I’d like to try it for coding. The free tier app hasn’t been bad either, I like it’s attitude a bit better than ChatGPT.
I'm more curious where Grok gets talent from.
There is so much money and so many top labs falling over themselves to attract good talent, that at this point people have to be leaning on ideological goals to choose their employer.
Are there really that many AI researchers who want to make Elon god-emperor?
I read the last election and other signals as the idea that there's way more unspoken diversity of thought in peoples minds than what people feel safe to say. Secretly lots of top talent probably doesn't care or even aligns with elon but chooses to say so at most with their actions in the form of being ok working for him.
Diversity of thought is a nice way to put it
A lot of serious engineers would love to work in an environment that isn't the HR-reigning office politics bullshit standard of the past decade or two.
I don't even really like Elon but I bet the engineers at X are having a better time in their day-to-day than the ones at Meta or Google where all their work is constantly roadblocked by red tape, in-fighting, and PMs whose only goal is to make it look like they headed something important to get themselves promoted. Elon's at least got a vision and keeps it a top priority to be competitive in the AI space.
I also feel Elon's team has been "untouchable" for Zuck and doesn't want to stir anything with him. But since his falling out of grace with the admin that could change?
If you're focusing on ideology, it isn't like the other companies are all that good. With Sam Altman you're still working for a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur. With Google and Meta you're propping up a massive worldwide surveillance apparatus.
Tech-bros have been propping up agents/propagators of some of the biggest social ills of the past ~2 decades, xAI isn't all that different.
He must be paying them millions
I am using Grok to visually analyze food images. Works really well, recognizes brands and weird shots users send me. API really easy to use.
You would have to be insane to integrate the model that last week called itself "Mecha Hitler" into your live product.
As a huge Musk fan i'll be the first to point out how he's doing exactly what he accused Sama of doing; making powerful ai with an obvious lack of control or effective alignment.
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There have been at least two instances of "unauthorized modifications" to the system prompt of the Grok model running wild in X, but if you build your own integration you would provide your own system prompt and be unaffected by that.
On the model side I've found Grok3 to be very unbiased. If you ask it to write a story it will somehow find a way to weave a mention of X/Twitter into that story, but other than that it is much less biased and moralizing than e.g. OpenAI models. It also has very lax guard rails, so that's something you'd probably want to add
I can't say yet whether all of this is still true for Grok 4
Are you asking it to write a story on like grok.com or inside of twitter, or are you saying that if I call the API and ask for a story I'm going to get twitter weaved in there somehow
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> if you build your own integration you would provide your own system prompt…
That won't save you if the model itself is trained on some nasty shit.