Elon Musk, the founding father of the bogus intelligence (AI) firm xAI, introduced a brand new characteristic for Grok on Monday. The in-house AI chatbot is now getting picture understanding functionality that permits it to course of and analyse the content material in a picture. Customers can now add a picture and ask the AI questions primarily based on it. Notably, xAI launched the Grok-2 AI mannequin in August. On the time, the corporate introduced that the AI mannequin would quickly assist completely different modalities.
Grok AI Will get Picture Understanding Functionality
In a submit on X (previously often known as Twitter), the official deal with of Grok introduced the brand new picture understanding functionality for the AI chatbot. Picture understanding, also referred to as laptop imaginative and prescient, permits an AI system to see and course of visible information inside a picture or a video. Presently, this functionality is just obtainable for static photos.
Musk additionally posted concerning the new characteristic, highlighting that the AI chatbot can run a deeper evaluation of the picture and even clarify the which means of a visible joke. Sharing an instance, the billionaire requested Grok to elucidate a joke in a picture. The AI was in a position to clarify the joke’s premise, the twist, and the visible gag in it.
Nevertheless, laptop imaginative and prescient shouldn’t be a brand new functionality for AI programs, and virtually each main AI mannequin presents this characteristic together with Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, and extra. An X consumer highlighted this and raised issues that there are various primary options nonetheless missing in Grok.
In a remark to Musk’s submit, the consumer mentioned that the AI chatbot nonetheless doesn’t have file importing and picture era functionality. The billionaire entrepreneur replied, “Not for lengthy. We’re getting carried out in months what took everybody else years.” These capabilities may very well be added to Grok within the close to future.
In August, xAI launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 Mini AI fashions, as an improve to the pilot model of the big language mannequin (LLM). Each fashions can be found within the Grok chatbot to X Premium and X Premium+ customers. The corporate claimed that it outperformed each the Claude 2.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 Turbo AI fashions.
