 
Elon Musk is at it again.Fresh off of yesterday's resignation of Linda Yaccarino as CEO of Musk's X platform and an antisemitic meltdown of its Grok chatbot, the controversial billionaire was back with his X.ai company to unveil a new version of his Grok artificial intelligence model.He called this version capable of reasoning at "superhuman" levels, which shouldn't worry anybody. Musk has a history of overhyping things (remember that underground tunnel he was going to build in Los Angeles?), but Artificial Analysis said Grok 4 is now the leading AI model.Don't expect OpenAI and other competitors to sit still as the AI race heats up.Roger Cheng PS: We just kicked off a free 2-week trial of WrapPRO. If you’ve been wanting to check out our full coverage, now’s the time. Feel free to forward the news. 
GROK 4 AI DEBUTS
Elon Musk once again has big promises, this time for Grok 4. The new version of the X.ai model is supposed to be "better than PhD level at everything" and boasted that it will likely discover "new technologies" by the end of this year and could uncover "new physics." This comes just days after its Grok chatbot melted down, spewing antisemitic commentary and other toxic content, which Musk chalked up to it being "too eager to please." It was bad enough that one X user said he was "considering" suing Musk and X after Grok laid out a hypothetical plan to break into his home and sexually assault him.I'm not making this up.DON'T MISS 
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