- XAI has launched the new AI Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy models
- Grok 4 requires a monthly Supergrok subscription of $ 30
- The launch occurs when Grok faces renewed criticism
XAI introduced new versions of its Grok AI model line. Grok 4 and his greatest and most powerful brother, Grok 4 Heavy, are part of the effort of CEO Elon Musk to position Grok as a serious competitor for the OpenAi chatgpt, Gemini of Google and Claude of Anthrope. That includes the new subscription level of $ 300 per month called Supergrok Heavy, which offers exclusive access to Grok 4 Heavy.
Musk boasted during the live announcement that “Grok 4 is better than the doctoral level in each subject, without exceptions. Sometimes, it can lack common sense, and has not yet invented new technologies or has discovered a new physics, but that is just a matter of time.”
And model reference scores suggest that it is not hyperbolic to say it; It is a legitimate leap forward. Grok 4 obtained 25.4% in the last point of reference of humanity examination notoriously difficult without tools, which put it ahead of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Openi’s O3. The boast is even more suitable for Grok 4 Heavy, because as a version of multiple Grok 4 agents, it displays several reasoning agents simultaneously. In the same test, it obtained 44.4%, better than all current commercial offers.
The food to carry, at least from a technical point of view, is that Grok 4 is now firmly in the territory of border models. That is a significant change for XAI, which only months ago was mainly known for its integration with X, the rebuilt Twitter owned by Musk. XAI is clearly trying to be taken seriously as a legitimate research and business company.
If you pay $ 300 per month for Supergrok Heavy, you will get not only access to Grok 4 Heavy, but also developer tools, use of API, and will be the first to try new and future features such as an AI coding assistant, a multimodal agent and a AI videos generator. As Openai, Google and Anthrope, all display more expensive levels of subscription, it is likely that Xai will be willing to get ahead both in the quality and quality of the model.
Presenting Grok 4, the most powerful model of the world. Look live broadcast now: https://t.co/59idx5s2ckJuly 10, 2025
Grokking controversy
Of course, the reference points and demonstrations shared by Musk and his team during live broadcast could not eclipse how the official Grok account in X this week became an anti -Semitic madness.
Automated chatbot responses in X for hours included conspiracy theories about Hollywood’s Jewish control, Hitler praise and even declaring himself as “Mechahitler.” The company quickly eliminated the positions when they appeared, and Grok briefly denied even before doing them in the reality of screenshots.
Finally, X eliminated all offensive posts and placed temporary restrictions on the account. The outbreak seemed to be linked to a recent update to the Grok internal system requested that the company then reversed.
Musk did not approach the incident directly during his live broadcast of Grok 4, nor anyone in XAI offered a public explanation. Meanwhile, Linda Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X the same day, although Xai insists that the moment is not related.
With all that happening in the background, the launch of Grok 4 did not have the clean debut focused on innovation that Xai probably expected. And it is difficult for the company to claim the praise for Hitler was simply a technical error when Musk, which is intimately linked to both X and XAI, has repeatedly insisted that Grok will be a model of non -politically correct AI.
You can build the most powerful model in the world, but if users are constantly preparing to say something offensive or deranged, that power will not matter.
There is no doubt that XAI has the technical skills to build a first level model. But unless they begin to address the trust, transparency and content security with the same intensity that they apply to the reference points, they will always update with companies with chatbots of AI that do not remind people of the important public relations disasters.
A company interested in what Grok 4 Heavy can do for them could be a bit more doubtful to pay $ 300 per month if the first thing people think when they listen to Grok by driving the system is the denial of the holocaust. That type of luggage is heavier than any data set.
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