xAI announces Grok, a new artificial intelligence model designed to answer almost any question and suggest what questions to ask. Grok, still in early beta stage, is stocked with real-time world knowledge via the 𝕏 platform and has the ability to answer sensitive questions that most AI systems might reject. The xAI team aims for Grok to facilitate research, innovation and offer a broad understanding of the world. It stresses designing AI tools that benefit all of humanity equally and are law-abiding. Grok's powering engine, Grok-1, has undergone several updates and changes in the past few months. xAI has highlighted that Grok-1 performed strongly against other models in machine learning on benchmarks conducted to measure reasoning and math abilities. The development of Grok incorporated building reliable infrastructure using Rust, a programming language known for its scalability and reliability. Grok’s design aimed at minimizing downtime and maintaining high Model Flop Utilization (MFU), even with unreliable hardware. In terms of future development, several promising research directions are highlighted. These include providing scalable oversight with AI assistance, integrating with formal verification for safety, understanding and retrieving long-context, improving adversarial robustness, and incorporating multimodal capabilities. Grok is expected to be equipped with real-time interaction and assistance features. xAI is providing limited early access for Grok prototype in the U.S., seeking feedback from users for capability improvements before its full release.