alt Hacker NewsSide question, let's say Grok is comparable in intelligence to other leading models. Will any serious business switch their default AI capabilities to Grok?
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I wouldn't for two reasons: - we've already tested OpenAI's GPT and Gemini a lot. Although they're not deterministic, we have used them enough to trust them and know the pitfalls. - Elon's example of Grok outputting 'X is the only place for real information' makes the model almost completely useless for text generation. Even more so than DeepSeek.
Grok 2's per-token prices are similar to GPT-4o, but since Grok tends to write longer responses than others, it can be significantly more expensive to use depending on the task. If xAI prices Grok 3 to compete with o1, not everyone is going to be lining up to use it even if it's a bit better than the competition. If that's how it goes, I'll be interested in the pricing for Grok 3 mini.
> Side question, let's say Grok is comparable in intelligence to other leading models. Will any serious business switch their default AI capabilities to Grok?
Yes, I'd say so. Bear in mind that, outside of the Terminally Online, very few people would deliberately hobble their business by deliberately choosing an inferior product.
if the api is cheap enough.
We might - I was testing it out on some salesforce apex code and it was doing a better job then o3 mini high at getting to job done for me…