Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Thursday, July 10th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Grock 4 is out. Plus Grock 4 voice, Grog4 code, a bunch more.

Okay, we know Zuck wants to catch up on AI, but Insider explains why they think meta fell behind

in AI in the first place. Are AI web browsers, the next battlefield in the AI wars, and if your electricity bill goes up substantially this summer, you'll never guess what you can blame.

You can probably guess. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

XAI has rolled out GROC 4, trained on its colossus supercomputer, featuring multimodal tools,

faster reasoning, GROC4 voice, GROC4 code, a new interface and more. According to artificial

analysis benchmarks, GROC4 is now the leading AI model, a first for XAI as a company, though they also

note that GROC4's per token pricing is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 pros and O3s, quoting Tom's

guide. An hour after the live stream was supposed to start last night, July 9th, Elon Musk and a few

members of his XAI team introduced

us to GROC4 on XAI. The long-winded announcement shared the news of multimodal features,

faster reasoning, and an upgraded interface something Musk compared to an era of, quote,

Big Bang Intelligence. On paper, Grock 4 is Musk's most ambitious AI model yet.

The model is expected to rival OpenAIs GPD4 and Anthropics Clod 4 Opus, both of which have

recently dominated headlines for their real-time speed, reasoning, and advanced vision.

We've run out of test questions to ask, Musk boasted during the launch, adding,

Reality is the ultimate reasoning test. But Grok isn't just

trying to compete, it's trying to survive a credibility crisis. The platform's unfiltered

free speech approach has led to concerning outputs, including racist and biased content that

circulated widely over the weekend. That's raised big questions about how much testing and guardrailing

XAI has actually done,

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