RE: Grok and Claude Go Head-to-Head
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I'm dabbling more and more. It's been useful for trip planning for me. I had Grok create a packing list based on the destination (Sedona) and it took weather and everything into account. The list is less than I would normally pack so I'm going to follow it and see how it goes. I'm also using it for cooking/grilling/recipes. Lower res would have probably helped the speed of render but I have a feeling the slow speed is intentional to try to motivate people to pay the premium for "super-Grok".
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Yeah, that is a good point about the paying for the premium version. I've seen some impressive stuff that people are doing with different AI things, but it all feels kind of complicated to me. I really need to dig into it a bit more I think because it likely isn't going away, but who knows.
I don't use it enough to justify paying the $300/month for the most advanced version but I bet it's mind-blowing. The same holds true for the premium versions of all these AI-models I'm sure. I'm hearing rumors of Apple releasing a free version of advanced AI on their devices soon and that will obliterate many of the competitors, and trap even more consumers in their "walled garden".
I think Apple is leveraging Google Gemini for their solution. At least that is what I read at some point. I have to believe the cost will come down eventually, despite the current cost of memory, storage and overall compute power.
That will be interesting if Apple ends up using Gemini. I've heard it's very capable. I guess compute is the only thing holding many of the models back right now. I think this is what prompted the deal between Anthropic and xAI–Claude needed more computing power. Anthropic got xAI's Colossus 1 and they moved Grok to Colossus 2. It sounds like Grok is almost dead last amongst LLMs, all things considered.
Oh, that is too bad. I think we ultimately need to see some consolidation, though competition is probably good in terms of innovation.