Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has teased the impending launch of the Grok 2 beta version, an advanced AI chatbot developed by his company, xAI.

What Happened: Over the weekend, Musk took to X, formerly Twitter, and shared a representational image of the Grok robot, complete with a cigar and Gold chains saying, "Grok 2 beta release soon."

The updated AI chatbot is anticipated to offer superior features and more precise results than its predecessor. However, considering it will be a beta version, it is likely to be accessible to a select group of users for testing purposes.

Previously, Musk's company xAI has said that the latest version of Grok surpasses OpenAI's GPT-4, Alphabet Inc.'s Google Gemini, Anthropic's Claude 3, and Mistral Large.

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Why It Matters: Last month, in conversation with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson at Tesla's Gigafactory in Texas, Musk outlined the timeline for the release of xAI's chatbot models.

At the time, the tech mogul stated that Grok 2 had completed its training phase and was in the bug-fixing stage, with an official release planned for the following month.

Musk also compared Grok 2's capabilities to those of OpenAI's model, GPT-4, suggesting that it should be on par or close to it. This comparison is significant, considering Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 before leaving the startup in 2018 over some differences.

The tech billionaire also teased Grok 3 saying it is currently undergoing training at the Memphis Data Center, with its release anticipated by December. "And Grok 3 should be the most powerful AI in the world at that point," he said in July.

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