🤖 Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils “Grok-2” and “Grok-2 mini”

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In today’s AI Report:

• 🦾Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils “Grok-2” and “Grok-2 mini”

• 📦Anthropic Introduces Prompt Caching

• 🎾Become a Tennis Pro With AI

• 🛠5 Trending Tools

• 💰Venture Capital Updates

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

XAI

🦾Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils “Grok-2” and “Grok-2 mini”

Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled “Grok-2” and “Grok-2 mini,” the startup’s latest open-source AI models.

Key Details:

• An early version of “Grok-2” has been tested on the Hugging Face LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard under the name “sus-column-r.”

• “sus-column-r” outperforms both Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo.

• “Grok-2” has noticeable improvements in long-content understanding and advanced reasoning capabilities.

• “Grok-2” achieved a 56% score on the Graduate-Level Science Knowledge (GPQA) benchmark and a 93.6% score on the Document-Based Question Answering (DocVQA) benchmark.

• “Grok-2 mini” is an affordable and intelligent Small Language Model (SLM) that requires fewer computational resources.

Why It’s Important:

• X Premium and X Premium+ users can access “Grok-2” and “Grok-2 mini.” The AI models integrate real-time information from the X platform.

• “Grok-2” was trained on over 20,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs to offer high performance in real-time knowledge and complex user query understanding.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

ANTHROPIC

📦Anthropic Introduces Prompt Caching

Anthropic introduced a new feature called “Prompt Caching,” which enables developers to save information when creating AI models.

Key Details:

• An Application Programming Interface (API) acts as the messenger between different software applications.

• API Calls are the messages sent between software applications.

• “Prompt Caching” enables developers to cache frequently used context between API Calls.

• In other words, developers can save the information they provide to AI models.

• By saving information, developers don’t have to send the same data repeatedly for each API Call.

Why It’s Important:

• By storing frequently used data, developers can save time and money as well as improve the performance of AI models.

• “Prompt Caching” is useful in customer service chatbots, where company policies can be stored and accessed efficiently.

AI RESEARCH

🎾Become a Tennis Pro With AI

Researchers at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) created “Match Point AI,” a framework for analyzing, optimizing, and predicting tennis strategies.

By leveraging historical tennis match data, “Match Point AI” creates virtual tennis environments where AI agents compete to learn successful playing styles.

It leverages Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS): a method for making decisions by intelligently exploring a tree of possibilities using random simulations.

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

• FRVR secures a $12.7M Seed Fund for AI-powered game creation.

• EliseAI lands a $75M Series D for chatbots that help property managers deal with renters.

• Guidewheel raises a $31M Series B to scale AI-powered FactoryOps across factory floors globally.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• FigureAI (Sunnyvale, CA): Full-Stack Engineer Intern, Summer 2025

• Macquarie (Houston, TX): 2025 Technology Internship Program

• Databricks (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Fall 2025

• Codeium (Mountain View, CA): AI Product Engineer, New College Grad 2024/2025

• Ramp (New York City, NY): Backend Software Engineer, New College Grad 2025

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